Stanley A. Wolpert
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Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Author of A New History of India and others.
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British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. The raj succeeded management of the subcontinent by the British East India Company, after general distrust and dissatisfaction with company leadership resulted in…
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