This system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India). Īs "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 region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states. Or Direct rule in India, and lasted from 1858 to 1947. The British Raj ( / r ɑː dʒ/ from Hindi rāj: kingdom, realm, state, or empire ) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent it is also called Crown rule in India, ^ The proclamation for New Delhi to be the capital was made in 1911, but the city was inaugurated as the capital of the Raj in February 1931.the British Indian Empire, which included the Princely States.
^ Note: Simla was the summer capital of the Government of British India, not of the British Raj, i.e.^ governed by Indian rulers, under the suzerainty of The British Crown exercised through the Viceroy of India).^ a quasi-federation of presidencies and provinces directly governed by the British Crown through the Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
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