when did britain rule india
The British Raj (rÄj, meaning rule in Hindi) was the rule of Great Britain in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.t the inception of the Raj in 1858, Lower Burma was already a part of British India; Upper Burma was added in 1886, and the resulting union, Burma, was administered as an autonomous province until 1937, when it became a separate British colony, gaining its own independence in 1948.