noun
a part of India, comprising 17 provinces, that prior to 1947 was subject to British law: now divided among India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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How to use British India in a sentence Andrew still plans to fly to Davos in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum on January 21, representing the British government.
It is the steady accretion of detail that may yet be the most damaging factor in the battle for British hearts and minds.
But a 2011 study of genetic evidence from 30 ethnic groups in India disproved this theory.
Are the Brogpas of Kashmir in India really the last bastion of purebred Aryans?
But I had won the British Award, Best Foreign Actor, so I went.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
Sweden excluded British goods, conformably to the continental system established by Bonaparte.
Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.
Many British Ferns evidence a marked tendency to “sport,” and this is a fact which the beginner should always bear in mind.
The parliament house and library of the British provinces, at Montreal, burned by a mob.
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British Dictionary definitions for British India
noun
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
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