Raj Britania Raya: Perbedaan antara revisi

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'''Kemaharajaan Britania''' ({{lang-en|British Raj}}; {{IPAc-en|r|ɑː|dʒ}}; dari ''rāj'', secara harafiah, "kekuasaan" dalam [[bahasa Hindustani|Hindustani]])<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'', edisi ke-2, 1989: dari [[Sanskrit|Skr.]] ''rāj'' "untuk memerintah, berkuasa", serumpun dengan [[Latin|L.]] ''rēx'', ''rēg-is'', [[Irlandia lama|OIr.]] ''rī'', ''rīg'' "raja" (bandingan ''rich'').</ref> merujuk pada periode kekuasaan [[Britania]] di [[anakbenua India]], yang mencakup [[India]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Pakistan]], [[Myanmar]], dan [[MyanmarSrilanka]], di mana wilayah-wilayah tersebut berada dalam kekuasaan kolonial Britania sebagai bagian dari [[Imperium Britania]].<ref name="oed2008-british-raj">''Oxford English Dictionary'', edisi ke-3 (Juni 2008), edisi daring (September 2011): "spec. In full ''British Raj''. Direct rule in India by the British (1858–1947); this period of dominion."</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Stein|first=Burton|title=A History of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QY4zdTDwMAQC&pg=GBS.PA107|year=2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-2351-1|page=107|quote= "When the formal rule of the Company was replaced by the direct rule of the British Crown in 1858, […]"|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Lowe|first=Lisa|title=The Intimacies of Four Continents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UMMECgAAQBAJ&pg=PT71|date= 2015|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-7564-7|page=71|quote=Company rule in India lasted effectively from the Battle of Plassey in 1757 until 1858, when following the 1857 Indian Rebellion, the British Crown assumed direct colonial rule of India in the new British Raj."|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Wright|first=Edmund|title=A Dictionary of World History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=POAwBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA537|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-968569-1|page=537|quote="More than 500 Indian kingdoms and principalities […] existed during the 'British Raj' period (1858–1947)"|language=en}}</ref> Sejak kemerdekaan negara-negara tersebut, masa sebelum kemerdekaan mereka disebut dengan istilah '''India Britania''' (''British India''), walaupun sebelum kemerdekaan istilah tersebut hanya merujuk pada bagian anakbenua yang berada langsung di bawah pemerintahan Inggris di [[Delhi]] dan sebelumnya [[Kolkata]].