ABSTRACT
Indian independence was achieved in 1947, but the interim government was operational for some time previous to independence. That interim period had deep foundations in the British Indian administration. The Secret and Foreign Department dealt with the tribals in the western and eastern North; with Nepal, Tibet and Afghanistan, and with British possessions in the Persian Gulf. Long before a bureaucracy had been developed to administer British expansion in India, the forms of Western diplomacy had been introduced to the subcontinent. English missionaries in the seventeenth century served as emissaries of the British to the Moghul court. In 1774, four years before Cornwall is surrendered at Yorktown, the British had already established a large and well-administered government in India. Before 1941 the Department of Education, Health and Lands had an Indian Overseas Section concerned with Indians residing in other dominions and other parts of the world.
