Question

it is said that there was rule of law in british india but equality before law emerged only after they left india. what does it mean?​

Answer 1

• British introduced the modern concept of rule of law in India, according to this no one is above law and every subject citizen is equal in the eyes of law. This concept though considered a major milestone in India's walk towards modernity was never implemented decisively, there still prevailed differences between the rulers and ruled. Britishers considered themselves superior racially and were never willing to compromise their superior status. The complete equality was only achieved once India has attained it's independence.

• At that time,Indians were not given freedom and equal rights if they would had given Indians freedom then maybe they would loose the rule in India but as they left India made EQUALITY BEFORE LAW which means that everyone is equal before law.

Answer 2

The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/; from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani)[2] was the rule by the British Crown in 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 British India or simply 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 informally 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]

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[12] (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). 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, was administered as an autonomous province until 1937, when it became a separate British colony, gaining its own independence in 1948.