GK
INDIAN ECONOMY
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Detailed explanation-1: -The British Raj was the period of British rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1757 and 1947, for around 200 years of British occupation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer-The British first landed on Indian territory in the 1600s, but their rule did not begin until 1858. The period of British rule lasted until 1947 when India gained independence from Britain. Answer-The first British to land in India were the East India Company, a group of traders who arrived in the 1600s.
Detailed explanation-4: -Before the British occupation, India was not a poor backwater, but a culturally and economically prosperous civilization that had existed for millennia. India was home to the oldest university in the world, had originated our numerical system, had produced countless thinkers, philosophers, poets, and scientists.