How British different in their way of administration from Indian rulers during 17th and 18th centuries.
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The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/; from rāj, literally, "rule" in Sanskrit and Hindustani)[2] was the rule by the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947.[3][4][5][6] The rule is also called Crown rule in India,[7] or direct rule in India.[8] 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, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also more formally called the Indian Empire.[9][10] 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.[11]
Warren Hastings introduced the new system of justice. Each district was to have two courts- Civil Court & Criminal Court.
The European District Collector presided over Civil Courts.
The Criminal Courts were still under a Qazi and a Mufti.
Under the Regulating Act of 1773, a new Supreme Court and a Court of Appeal were established in Calcutta.
The main figure in an Indian District was Collector.
According to his title Collector, his main job was to collect the revenue and the taxes and maintain law & order in his district with the help of judges, police officers and darogas.
