Countries that Bordered British India with an Empty Map

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Sikkim was close! It actually gained proper independence mid 1947 when India succeeded, but this map is from just before the partition.

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Try typing Portugal! ;)

My source includes them, regardless of how intergrated they were with what is now India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Yes, Sikkim was a princely state, but most princely states in the subcontinent during this era had limited autonomy, such as Manipur and Hyderabad. Bhutan was a princely state, but it had more recognition and legitimacy than others.

It was renamed to Siam from 1945 to 1949. As for Burma and Ceylon, my source included them.

Burma did leave the British Raj in 1937. This quiz is not specifically about the British Raj but I've changed the date on the description to match to eliminate any grey area, considering the borders didn't change over the 10 years. I'm keeping Ceylon in however, as it was British territory in the greater area known as India.

I kept the name of the colony to be specific, but you can type either the country name or the colony name if you want.

Apologies, but I do not have a good way of adding circles and preserving the empty map format.

That is fair, I have removed Sri Lanka from the map.

Neither did British India. The border remained disputed, with the British claiming the Macartney-MacDonald Line during a time in which China was too weak to have a say. However, the Macartney MacDonald Line splits Aksai Chin down the middle. However, no one actually controlled the region until more recent years, although China built a road through the region in the 1950's. Prior to (sovereign) India's and China's competing over Himalayan disputes in the 1950's, the border was described as 'undemarcated', and therefore I see no issue with how I've drawn the map.

Raja Gulab Singh's conquests into Tibet didn't go well, and according to Wikipedia the border treaty established was vague in its precise meaning. The area remained a grey area of dispute into the rule of the British Raj. I doubt that small disputed territories were of much importance until much more recently, when India and China emerged as powerful states with actual control over Himalayan territories. Prior to this, there was little reason to contend lines drawn on a map, over unpopulated, remote and resource-lacking parcels of land. I suppose I could also give Aksai Chin to the British Raj under that logic, considering it was terra incognita, however I see no reason in going and putting the work in to update my map, when doing so would make the quiz no more accurate than it is currently.