The first British settlement (avamposto) in South Asia was established in 1619 at Surat Madras , Bombay , and Calcutta
The British expanded their influence and, by the 1850s, they controlled most of present-day India , Pakistan , and Bangladesh
In 1857, a rebellion in northern India Great Britain began administering most of India
In the late 1800s, the Indians started a fight for their independence. At first Britain
At the beginning of 1920, Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi transformed the Indian National Congress political party into a mass movement against British colonial rule. The party used both parliamentary and non-violent resistance to achieve (raggiungere) independence.
On August 15, 1947 India West Pakistan , where there were Muslim majorities.
India, called the jewel of the British Empire, has always impressed vividly in the imagination and writings of the British: from Wilkie Collins’s The Monnstone at the beginning of the 1800 to the novels of R. Kipling, E. M. Forster, and G. Orwell. Yet Indian literature and English also called “Indo-Anglian Literature” only began to get international recognition (ottenere un riconoscimento internazionale) in the last two decades of the 20th century.
Though English language is seen as inauthentic, a reminder of British imperial domination, it has become an Indian language in its own right with a particular verve and linguistic inventiveness.