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India it was a british empire?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Yes,India was a colony of Britain.
I around 1612,East India Company got monopoly rights to trade and the English gradually colonised India.India got freed only in 1947.British controlled India for almost 200 years.

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