British India

noun

1. a part of India, comprising 17 provinces, that prior to 1947 was subject to British law: now divided among India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

British India

noun

1. the 17 provinces of India formerly governed by the British under the British sovereign: ceased to exist in 1947 when the independent states of India and Pakistan were created

Example Sentences

Once the capital of British India, the city's fortunes have waned since independence.

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He was born in Charkhari, a state in British India, in what he describes as a "one-horse town".

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Of all the national narratives that emerged after the Empire's collapse, the Gulf states have been most successful at erasing their ties to British India.

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Everywhere that he went in the Gulf - Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Oman - he found expected traces of British India.

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It all goes back to the bloody Partition of 1947, when the United Kingdom ceded rule of British India and divided the colony into the independent nations of India and Pakistan—the latter of which was intended as a home for the Muslim population.

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