--- title: British India propaganda in the collection url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/country/british-india/ description: Browse all 13 items from British India in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source. section: Collection --- ![Illustration: a dossier collage of an evidence wall of pinned propaganda posters, leaflets and printed matter from many eras, with contact sheets and catalog labels.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-collection.jpg) Country # British India propaganda in the collection 13 objects, listed by date. 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Country: British India [The whole collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) · [Search](https://propagandaarchive.org/search/) - [Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/queens-proclamation-to-the-people-of-india-1858/) (British India · Nov 1, 1858 · Glittering generalities, Scapegoating) - ['The Congress Cross or "Swastik"' (Pickings from the Hindi Punch, Bombay, February 1896)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hindi-punch-congress-swastik-1896/) (British India · Feb 1896 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Hindi Punch, weekly, cartoon page (Bombay, January 1904): 'United We Stand: Divided We Fall!'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hindi-punch-united-we-stand-1904/) (British India · Jan 1904 · Glittering generalities). Content note: Period caricature drawing of three men with a quoted speech on Hindu-Muslim co-operation; no demeaning content. - [Bharat Mata (Mother India)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bharat-mata-tagore-1905/) (British India · 1905 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [The Bombay Gazette, 17 October 1905, page 5: "The Partition of Bengal" and the Swadeshi meeting in Bombay](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bombay-gazette-partition-of-bengal-1905/) (British India · Oct 17, 1905 · Bandwagon). Content note: Colonial-era newspaper page using period terms for Indians ('Babus', 'Natives', 'Mahomedans') and reporting a Swadeshi meeting; reproduced as printed. - [यह सिपाही हिन्दुस्तान की हिफ़ाज़त कर रहा है (This Soldier Is Defending India), Indian Army recruiting poster, Bombay](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/indian-army-hindi-recruiting-poster-1914/) (British India · 1914 · Transfer) - [اودھ کے برہمنوں اور راجپوتوں سے ایک اپیل (An Appeal to the Brahmins and Rajputs of Oudh)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/oudh-appeal-to-brahmins-and-rajputs-1918/) (British India · 1918 · Name-calling, Fear appeal, Testimonial, Transfer) - [The Bombay Chronicle, 15 April 1919, page 7: Amritsar and Lahore riots communique, Haque resignation, "Satyagrahi"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bombay-chronicle-rowlatt-satyagrahi-1919/) (British India · Apr 15, 1919 · Name-calling). Content note: Newspaper page reporting the April 1919 Punjab riots, including the official description of killings of Europeans and of the crowd, and the label 'agitators'; the Jallianwala Bagh massacre is not yet on the page. - [The Bombay Chronicle, article on a foreign-cloth bonfire (July 30, 1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bombay-chronicle-cloth-bonfire-1921/) (British India · Jul 30, 1921 · Identity fusion, Glittering generalities) - [Bande Mataram (Lahore), commemorative page for Lala Lajpat Rai, 16 November 1929](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bande-mataram-lahore-lajpat-rai-1929/) (British India · Nov 16, 1929 · Transfer) - [Gandhi spins while addressing a crowd (1930)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gandhi-spinning-1930/) (British India · 1930 · Plain folks, Transfer) - [The Bombay Chronicle, front page (Bombay, 7 April 1930): "Salt laws to be broken in Bombay to-day"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bombay-chronicle-salt-laws-broken-1930/) (British India · Apr 7, 1930 · Glittering generalities, Bandwagon, Name-calling). Content note: Newspaper page with period caste and communal terms ('Untouchable', 'Pathans') and a headline calling opponents of Gandhi 'Champions Of Foreign Rule!'; reports police firing on strikers. - [Join the Indian Navy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/join-the-indian-navy-1942/) (British India · 1942 · Glittering generalities)