Queen Victoria, Empress of IndiaPortrait of Queen Victoria, from an 1882 photograph by Alexander Bassano. She had been named Empress of India in 1876.(more) British raj Indian and Pakistani history Written by Stanley A. Wolpert Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Author...
(1852) had left the kingdom of Ava (Upper Burma; see Alaungpaya dynasty) independent of British India, and, under the rule of King Mindon (1853–78), who built his capital at Mandalay, steamers bringing British residents and private traders up the Irrawaddy River from Rangoon (Yangon) ...