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Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
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1946 revolt by British Indian sailors
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1612–1947 British directly-ruled administrative divisions in India
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