Name the person who opposed the expansion of British Empire in India
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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]
India
1858–1947
Flag of India
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Top: Star of India flag
Bottom: British Union Flag
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Star of India
Anthem: "God Save the King/Queen"
The British Raj in 1936
The British Raj in 1936
Status
Imperial political structure (comprising British India, a quasi-federation of presidencies and provinces directly governed by the British Crown through the Viceroy 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
EnglishUrduHindiVarious South Asian languages
Religion
Sikhism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity
Government
British Colony
British Monarch and Emperor/Empressa
• 1858–1901
Victoria
• 1901–1910
Edward VII
• 1910–1936
George V
• 1936
Edward VIII
• 1936–1947
George VI
Viceroyb
• 1858–1862
The 2nd Viscount Canning (first)
• 1947
The 1st Viscount Mountbatten (last)
Secretary of State
• 1858–1859
Lord Stanley (first)
• 1947
The 5th Earl of Listowel (last)
Legislature
Imperial Legislative Council
History
• Battle of Plassey & Indian Rebellion
23 June 1757 & 10 May 1857
• Government of India Act
2 August 1858
• Indian Independence Act
18 July 1947
• Partition of India
15 August 1947
Currency
Indian rupee
ISO 3166 code
IN
Preceded by Succeeded by
Company rule in India
Mughal Empire
Emirate of Afghanistan
Azad Hind
Interim Government of India
Dominion of India
Dominion of Pakistan
British rule in Burma
Trucial States
Colony of Aden
Straits Settlements
Title of Emperor/Empress of India existed 1876–1948
Full title was "Viceroy and Governor-General of India"
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.
Tipu of Mysore
Lord Wellesley signed Subsidiary treaties with several kingdoms as a part of expanding British Empire in India. When several kingdoms surrender their kingdom either by force or by money “Tipu Sultan of Mysore" never agreed to the Subsidiary treaty. He strengthened his force and sent missions to join their hands to countries like Afghanistan, Arabia, France, and Turkey as an anti-British alliance.
Before the French army reach for help, the British army attacked and defeated Tipu. He doesn’t agree to surrender instead died in the battle on May 4, 1799, while defending Seringapatanam (capital) with his loyal soldiers.