India, Empire of (British Raj): Information

India, Empire of (British Raj) (1858 - 1947)

The British Raj (rāj meaning "rule" in Hindi) was the rule of Great Britain in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. The term can also refer to the period of dominion. The region under British control - commonly called India - included areas directly administered by Britain as well as the princely states ruled by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown. The region is now less commonly also called British India or the Indian Empire.

The Empire of India was officially created by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli for Queen Victoria in 1876. As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.

The system of governance was instituted on June 28, 1858, when the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (and who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India), and lasted until 1947, when the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two sovereign dominion states: the Union of India (later the Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan (later the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the eastern half of which, still later, became the People's Republic of Bangladesh). At the inception of the Raj in 1858, Lower Burma was already a part of British India; Upper Burma was added in 1886, and the resulting union, Burma, was administered as an autonomous province until 1937, when it became a separate British colony, gaining its own independence in 1948.

India, Empire of (British Raj): List of Rulers.
Reign / RuleFromToCoins Issued
Victoria, Empress of India 1 May 1876 22 January 1901 2
Edward VII, Emperor of India 22 January 1901 6 May 1910
George V, Emperor of India 6 May 1910 20 January 1936 1
Edward VIII, Emperor of India 20 January 1936 11 December 1936
George VI, Emperor of India 11 December 1936 15 August 1947
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India, Empire of (British Raj): Details
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Flag of Mysore, Kingdom of Mysore, Kingdom of 1399 1947
Flag of Bombay Presidency Bombay Presidency 1618 1947
Flag of Bahawalpur Bahawalpur 1802 1955
Flag of Jaora State Jaora State 1808 1948