State · 1858 – 1947
British Raj
A state of 1858 – 1947 — 89 years in South Asia. It replaced Emirate of Afghanistan, Company rule in India and Kolathunadu and 2 more and followed Mughal Empire and Second Anglo-Sikh War. It was replaced by India, Pakistan and Dominion of India and 2 more. The atlas records 242 things within it — wars and battles 16 · unrest and atrocity 6 · famine and plague 6 · natural disasters 3 · treaties 1 · people 210. Its line of rulers holds 5 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 89 years
- 1858 – 1947
- Rulers
- 5
- the Emperor of India
- Most ground
- 4.95 million km²
- in 1917
- Within it
- 242
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 3
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Emirate of Afghanistan · replaces · 1823 – 1926
- Jaitpur State · replaces · 1731 – 1849
- Company rule in India · replaces · 1757 – 1858
- Trankebar · replaces
- Kolathunadu · replaces · 601 BCE – 1792 CE
- Second Anglo-Sikh War · follows · 1848 – 1849
- Mughal Empire · follows · 1526 – 1857
After it
- Dominion of India · replaced by · 1947 – 1950
- Dominion of Pakistan · replaced by · 1947 – 1956
- British rule in Burma · replaced by · 1824 – 1948
- India · replaced by · 1950 – present
- Pakistan · replaced by · 1956 – present
Rulers
The line of Emperor of India.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Victoria | 1876 – 1901 | 25 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Edward VII | 1901 – 1910 | 9 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| George V | 1910 – 1936 | 26 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Edward VIII | 1936 – 1936 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| George VI | 1936 – 1948 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | sibling |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1876 – 1948. Median reign 12 years. 0 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
4.20 million km² in 1868, 750,200 km² in 1947; at its largest 4.95 million km² in 1938. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedFlag of Imperial India · Public domain .svg/120px-Star_of_the_Order_of_the_Star_of_India_(gold).svg.png)
coat of arms, undatedStar of the Order of the Star of India (gold) · Public domain 
flag, undatedBritish Raj Red Ensign · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1800 – 1899117 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Mahatma Gandhi · politician · 1869 – 1948
- Rabindranath Tagore · philosopher · 1861 – 1941
- Jawaharlal Nehru · politician · 1889 – 1964
- B. R. Ambedkar · politician · 1891 – 1956
- Swami Vivekananda · philosopher · 1863 – 1902
- C. V. Raman · scientist · 1888 – 1970
- Muhammad Iqbal · philosopher · 1877 – 1938
- Srinivasa Ramanujan · scientist · 1887 – 1920
and 109 more in the atlas.
1900 – 1999125 rows · 13 wars and battles · 6 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Indira Gandhi · politician · 1917 – 1984
- Aung San Suu Kyi · politician · 1945 – present
- Satyajit Ray · artist · 1921 – 1992
- Muhammad Yunus · scientist · 1940 – present
- Manmohan Singh · politician · 1932 – 2024
- Rajiv Gandhi · politician · 1944 – 1991
- Amartya Sen · philosopher · 1933 – present
- Osho · religious leader · 1931 – 1990
and 117 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood89 years
stood longer than 44% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held4,949,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 97% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century3.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median12 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 41% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 44 causes the record names and 5 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1848 – 1957, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1917, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q129286 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.