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British India, 1858
India’s boundaries were gradually expanded after the British government took over the administration of India from the English East India Company in 1858. British India eventually came to include what are now the independent countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
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