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History of the British Raj. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British Government took over the administration to establish the British Raj. The British Raj was the period of British Parliament rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947, for around 89 years of British occupation. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 ...
The British Raj (/ r ɑː dʒ / RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') [10] was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, [11] lasting from 1858 to 1947. [12] It is also called Crown rule in India , [ 13 ] or Direct rule in India . [ 14 ]
English language. Indian English (IndE, [4] IE) is a group of English dialects spoken in the Republic of India and among the Indian diaspora. [5] English is used by the Government of India for communication, and is enshrined in the Constitution of India. [6]
British Raj. Today part of. India. Pakistan. Bangladesh. East India Company rule in India (or the Company Raj, [6] from Hindi rāj, lit. 'rule'[7]) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced between 1757 and 1773.
The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers), British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857; or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947) and ...
By the time the 155,000 British citizens living in the Raj [5] left India in 1947, only 12% [2] of the 390 million people living in India was literate. Wilson challenges the assumption, made by many on the left, that British rule in India was an efficient structure of profit-making, arguing instead that the Raj's power was piecemeal and ...
Publisher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Media type. Hardcover. Pages. 640. ISBN. 978-0374116859. The British in India: A Social History of the Raj is a nonfiction book by David Gilmour, a British historian.
t. e. The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal. It later took root in the newly formed ...