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Date 1857 - 1947
Location India • Pakistan
Participants British Empire • India • Pakistan
Context East India Company • Government of India Acts • Indian Rebellion of 1857

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Queen Victoria, Empress of India
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
British merchant ship, Bombay (Mumbai), India
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of Lansdowne
George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Helena Blavatsky
Jiddu Krishnamurti and Annie Besant
Rabindranath Tagore
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