The provinces of India, earlier 'presidencies of British India', and still earlier 'presidency towns', were the administrative divisions directly administered by the British authorities that formed pa
Fort William, Calcutta, the capital of the Bengal Presidency in British India 1735
The Indian peninsula in 1700, showing the Mughal Empire and the European trading settlements
The Indian peninsula in 1760, three years after the Battle of Plassey, showing the Maratha Empire and other prominent political states
Expansion of British Bengal and Burma
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The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia below the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west. It is now divi
South Asia non political, with rivers
The accretions of the Karakoram, the Kohistan-Ladakh island arc, and the Gangdese belt to Eurasia preceded the final India-Eurasia collision. The stars mark the syntaxis-causing obtrustions.