do you think the colonial period in india history bears the traits of the medieval period, through period-wise the phase is categoried as the modern period? support the answer with arguments.
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The British Raj from rāj, literally, "rule" in Sanskrit and Hindustani)was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947.The rule is also called Crown rule in India,or direct rule in India. 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, plus those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, called the princely states. The whole was never officially called the Indian Empire, only informally.Status
Imperial political structure (comprising British India, a quasi-federation of presidencies and provinces directly governed by the British Crown through the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, Princely States, governed by Indian rulers, under the suzerainty of The British Crown exercised through the Viceroy of India)[1]
Capital
Calcutta
(1858–1911)
New Delhi
(1911–1947)
Common languages
EnglishUrduHindiTeluguTamilKannadaBengaliVarious South Asian languages
Religion
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism
Government
British Colonial Government
Monarch of the United Kingdom and Emperor/Empressa
• 1858–1901
Victoria
• 1901–1910
Edward VII
• 1910–1936
George V
• 1936
Edward VIII
• 1936–1947
George VI
Viceroyb
• 1858–1862 (first)
Charles Canning
• 1947 (last)
Louis Mountbatten
Secretary of State
• 1858–1859 (first)
Edward Stanley
• 1947 (last)
William Hare
Legislature
Imperial Legislative Council
History
• Battle of Plassey & Indian Rebellion
23 June 1757 and 10 May 1857
• Government of India Act
2 August 1858
• Indian Independence Act
18 July 1947
• Partition of India
14 and 15 August 1947
Currency
Indian rupee
ISO 3166 code
IN
Preceded by Succeeded by
Company rule in India
Mughal Empire
Dominion of India
Dominion of Pakistan
Title of Emperor/Empress of India existed 1876–1948
Full title was "Viceroy and Governor-General of India"
As "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.[10]
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[11] (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India). It lasted until 1947, when it was partitioned into two sovereign dominion states: the Dominion of India (later the Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan (later the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the eastern part of which, still later, became the People's Republic of Bangladesh in 1971). At 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 (Myanmar), was administered as an autonomous province until 1937, when it became a separate British colony, gaining its own independence in 1948.