British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent following the uprising of 1857 and the abolition of the East India Company’s role in managing the region. It was instituted with the Government of India Act of 1858 and lasted until
Maharaja, (from mahat, “great,” and rājan, “king”), an administrative rank in India; generally speaking, a Hindu prince ranking above a raja. Used historically, maharaja refers specifically to a ruler of one of the principal native states of India.
The late Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (1938-2019) has left an important and extensive body of work on the history of the British Raj and the transition to nationalism in India, including the edited volumes which constitute a Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal (1700-1950), to be published by the...
by Indians themselves. This book is the history of British India from 1599 to 1947. It is divided into three parts addressing political history, topical studies, and a collection of four hundred biographies of noteworthy British men and women who played a role in the creation of the Raj. ...
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administered the subcontinent. along with the providing details of the british raj, this article will also give a brief history about the colonial ventures of the east india company before its dissolution. the details provided will be useful in the modern indian history segment of the ias exam ...
We do not ask for freedom that there may be a Muslim Raj here and Hindu Raj elsewhere. If that is what Pakistan means I will have nothing to do with it. If Pakistan means unalloyed Muslim Raj in the Punjab then I will have nothing to do with it (*hear, hear*)…. If you want ...
ForgingtheRaj:EssaysonBritishIndiaintheHeydayofEmpire,and:TheLionandtheTiger:TheRiseandFalloftheBritishRaj(review) In the second section, Metcalf turns from social history to cultural history, and particularly to his work on the aesthetic expression of colonialism ... Philip,J.,Stern - 《Victorian...
THEY are the forgotten heroes of the trenches, the brave men who gave their lives to the Empire but whose names have been erased from the history books. More than 400,000 Muslim soldiers fought in World War One , yet a recent survey by British Future, a think-tank dedicated to racial ...
For all the disturbing British iniquity chronicled by Tharoor, many Indians – past and present – have felt differently from him about the Raj and its legacy. In almost four decades of researching books about India, I can recall not a single Indian who chose to reject me simply because I ...