Original sentence: "reign" in Hindi) is a euphemism used in Britain to refer to the British colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947;[1]; it can also refer to the region that was occupied, or the period of rule ('dominion' in the language of the British Empire).It included areas directly administered by Britain (contemporaneously, "British India") as well as the princely states ruled by individual rulers under British control ('paramountcy of the British Crown').The resulting political union was officially designated by the British as the Indian Empire, but commonly called India in contemporary usage.The system of governance was instituted in 1858, when the territories controlled by the British East India Company were transferred to the British Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (and who, in 1876, was proclaimed by the British Empress of India), and continued 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 and the People's Republic of Bangladesh)
Edited sentence: "reign" in Hindi) primarily refers to the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; it can also refer to the region of the rule, or the period of dominion.It included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom (contemporaneously, "British India") as well as the princely states ruled by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown.The resulting political union was officially designated the Indian Empire, but commonly called India in contemporary usage.The system of governance was instituted in 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 and the People's Republic of Bangladesh)