British Raj

English

Alternative forms

• British India

Etymology

British + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi-(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Urdu राज (rāj, “kingdom”) and راج (rāj, “kingdom”).

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Proper noun

British Raj

1. (historical) The colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire between 1858 and 1947.