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The Rajya Sabha (lit: "States' Assembly"), also known as the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India.
Rejecting the imperial vice-regal style of government associated with the Raj, the new India nevertheless sought inspiration in domestic British political practice. The constitution put in place a Westminster style of government, with a parliament comprising two houses, and a prime minister selected by the majority party in the lower house ...
The British Raj was the administration of India by Britain, the government having taken over that role from the East India Company after the Indian Rebellion.
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The origins of British rule of South Asia lay in the founding of the English East India Company (EIC) in 1600. The company’s participation in the lucrative spice trade led it to establish trading posts first at Surat on the Gujarati coast and later at Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. By the mid-eighteenth century, competition with the French drew the ...
Company rule ended with the abolition of the East India Company in 1858 in the wake of the Indian rebellion, more commonly known as the Indian Mutiny. The revolt convinced the British that their efforts at reform of Indian society had been dangerously miscalculated. Consequently the Government of India (GoI) understood its role in an extremely cons...
Bayly, C. A. 1988. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UniversityPress. Bayly, C. A., and T. N. Harper. 2005. Forgotten Armies: Britain’s Asian Empire and the War with Japan. London: Penguin. Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal. 2004. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. 2nd ed. New York: Ro...
Mar 3, 2011 · The foundation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 as an all India, secular political party, is widely regarded as a key turning point in formalising opposition to the Raj.
This essay is a summary and restatement of some of the major themes of the author's recent book on the relationship between economic change and the ending of colonial rule in India, The Political Economy of the Raj 1914- 1947: the Economics of Decolonization in India (London, 1979).
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]
