Subdivisions of British India

Colonial India

Imperial entities of India
Dutch India	1605–1825
Danish India	1620–1869
French India	1668–1954
Portuguese India (1505–1961)
Casa da Índia	1434–1833
Portuguese East India Company	1628–1633
British India (1612–1947)
East India Company	1612–1757
Company rule in India	1757–1858
British Raj	1858–1947
British rule in Burma	1824–1948
Princely states	1721–1949
Partition of India	1947

For administrative purposes British India was subdivided into the following units:

While British India did administratively not include the princely states, which remained nominally outside the British Raj,under the administration of their own rulers, the relationship of the British with these states was managed by:

Still, the British authorities recurred to the doctrine of lapse when they decided to interfere in the internal matters of a princely state.