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== British India ==
{{Nation|common_name=British India|full_name=Viceroyalty of India|capital=Ezimabad </br> Madras|languages=English </br> Aryan dialects </br> Bengali </br> Tamil </br> Others|government_type=Colonial administration|currency=British pound sterling (£)|established=1815|map=British India 1935 RTL.png}}
'''British India''' was a collection of colonial provinces, kingdoms, principalities, fiefdoms, and states under the suzerainty of the British Crown and centrally administered from the viceroyalty at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patna Ezimabad] and Madras.
British colonies in southern Asia were administered by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company East India Company] until the [[History of Europe#French Revolution and the Augustine Wars (1780s-1814)|Augustine Wars]], when an empire-wide administrative reform transferred the collection of territories to the Crown around 1815.
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