Talk:British Raj

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Messy lead

The British Raj (rāj, lit. "reign" in Hindi)[1] was British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. The term can also refer to the period of dominion.

What a messy lead.

I'm not a native English-speaker, but to make that sentence legible it should be something like: The British Raj (rāj, lit. "reign" in Hindi)[1] is the name given to British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

The term can also refer to the period of dominion.

the period of dominion!? What does "the period of dominion" means!?!

<sigh>--Lubiesque (talk) 18:28, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

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Non-British Indian territories

The territories of Goa, Damão, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli were under Portuguese rule since before there were even any British in India and stayed so until after they left. They were part of what was then called Portuguese India since the 1500's. Pondicherry was also not part of the British Raj, being instead regarded alongside Mahé, Yanam and Karaikal as French India since 1674. So why does every single map in this article show the entire Indian subcontinent under British rule? And no mentions to these territories being exceptions of sovereignty on this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonaspv (talk • contribs) 22:53, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

If you look carefully at

and

, you will see that the French, Portuguese etc. colonies are shown on the map and labelled as such.

also indicates that Pondicherry is French. These colonies are very small in comparison to the extent of British controlled territory that they are hard to see unless you expand the images to their maximum.

As the title of the article is British Raj, it would seem logical to discuss the British Raj, not French or Portuguese colonies. Dabbler (talk) 01:15, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

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