<P> 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 ( who , in 1876 , was proclaimed Empress of India ) . It lasted until 1947 , when Britain ′ s Indian Empire 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 . </P>
<P> 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 ( who , in 1876 , was proclaimed Empress of India ) . It lasted until 1947 , when Britain ′ s Indian Empire 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 . </P>
when was india made part of the british empire
when was india made part of the british empire
28 June 1858
28 June 1858