History of the British Raj

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After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British Government took over the administration from Company rule in India to establish the British Raj there. The British Raj was the period of Crown rule in India between 1858 and 1947, for around 200 years of British occupation. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria. The British Raj in the Indian subcontinent lasted until 1947, when the British provinces of India were eventually partitioned into two sovereign dominion states (thus, undermining the idea of Dominion, as the original pre war British Dominions were not sovereign): the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan, leaving the princely states to choose between them. Most of the princely states decided to join either the Dominion of India or the Dominion of Pakistan, except the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was only at the last moment that Jammu and Kashmir agreed to sign...

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