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Material from British Raj was split to History of the British Raj on 13:25, 4 May 2008. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted so long as the latter page exists. Please leave this template in place to link the article histories and preserve this attribution. Revisions succeeding this version of this article is substantially duplicated by a piece in an external publication. Please do not flag this article as a copyright violation of the following source: Editors of the OED (June 1, 2008), "British raj" in (a) raj (noun, 2, added June 2008, (b) British (adjective, Compounds, C2, added December 2008), Oxford English Dictionary Additional comments The lead of Wikipedia's article had in 2006 and early 2007 referenced the short two line entry on the "British raj" in the OED second edition 1989. In June 2008, when the OED entry was revised for the third edition, it had borrowed some of Wikipedia's words, in a paragraph is smaller print. This was noted in my post of 19 August 2008 on the Talk:British raj. It was noted then, and is being noted again now, not as a case of plagiarism (as the we had borrowed the OED's lead sentence as well, i.e. that the dependence is two-way), but as a source of pride, viz that Wikipedia had come of such age and reputation that even the OED had used our language almost verbatim in this instance. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 10:48, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The bottom of the textbox for the page claims the Raj was preceded by the Mughal Empire (De jure) and Company rule in India (De facto). It also claims that the British Raj was succeeded by; the Dominion of India, the Dominion of Pakistan, the Persian Gulf Residency, the colonies of Burma and Aden, the strait settlements and British Somaliland.

However, the page doesn't reference any sources to back up the claim about British somaliland being under the British Raj at any time and the wiki page for british somaliland makes no reference to this.

Can someone add a source to back this up, and perhaps make some edits to the page on british somaliland as well?

This source (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068370802658666) by historian James Onley in Volume 40, 2009 - Issue 1 of Asian Affairs would be a good source.

I'm not 100% familiar with the format for sourcing something like this. Monziguazini (talk) 10:18, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Action needed- add new "Massacre" section:

Please add the following new "Massacre" section below the "Famine" section and above the "Education" section.

== Massacre of Indian civilians by British troops==

This is the list of civilian massacre of Indians, in most cases comprised of unarmed peaceful crowds, by the British colonial troops. Britain has never formally apologised for these massacres, but merely expressed "deep regret" in 2019 only for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

• Jallianwala Bagh massacre‎ on 13 April 1919 at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in Punjab:
  Brigadier General R. E. H. Dyer's troops^[1] massacred 379 to more than 1,500 unarmed peaceful civilians,^[2] and wounded over 1,200 other Indian civilians.^[3][4] The level of casual brutality, and lack of any accountability, stunned the entire nation,^[5] resulting in a wrenching loss of faith of the general Indian public in the intentions of the United Kingdom.^[6]

• Munshiganj Raebareli massacre on 7 January 1921 at Munshiganj in Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh:^[7]
  The official death toll of Indian farmers is shown minimal by the British historians whereas other estimates put the death toll in the hundreds,^[7] causing the nearby Sai river turn red from the blood.^[8]

• Salanga massacre^[9] on 27 January 1922 in Salanga bazaar in Raiganj Upazila in then-Bengal province & present-day Bangladesh:^[10]
  The police opened fire killing hundreds,^[11] deathtoll ranged from 1,500 to 4,500 people.^[12] A mass graveyard remains near Salanga Bazar at Rahmatganj,^[12] where Salanga Day is commemorated annually on 27 January in the memory of victims.^[9]

• Qissa Khwani massacre on 23 April 1930 in modern day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan:
  In this armoured vehicle-ramming attack and mass shooting of the unarmed civilian Khudai Khidmatgar freedom fighters by the British colonial troops,Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). The shooting of unarmed people triggered protests across British India.^[13]

• Spin Tangi massacre on 24 August 1930 at the Spin Tangi village near Domel in Bannu district of the North-West Frontier Province of British India:
  80 non-violent Khudai Khidmatgar Pashtun protesters were killed by the colonial British Army.^[14][15]

• Takkar massacre on 28 May 1930 at Takkar in Mardan tehsil in North-West Frontier Province of British India:
  When local villagers attempted to stop soldiers from arresting freedom fighter activists of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, in the ensuing shooting an English police officer called Murphy was killed, three days later, a large force of British colonial troops attacked the village in retaliation,^[16] killing 70 and wounding another 150 people in the massacre. A monument has been built in the memory of victims.^[17]

• Vidurashwatha massacre on 25 April 1938 at Vidurashwatha presently in Gauribidanur taluk of Chikkaballapur district in Karnataka:
  Colonial troops fired 90 rounds on unarmed people who had assembled to hoist the flag of the Indian National Congress, killing 33 and wounding more than 100 people.^[18]

Edit comment: New section titled "Massacre" created with condensed snd rephrased content taken from the wikilinked articles as permissible under the Wikipedia guidelines. Thank you. 220.255.242.109 (talk) 06:25, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Partly done: Thanks for compiling this! I added the section, but ommitted "Britain has never formally apologised for these massacres, but merely expressed "deep regret" in 2019 only for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre." Please provide a reliable source for this claim. Thanks. —Of the universe (say hello) 13:35, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it would probably be good to make a list of massacres as a standalone article, link to that list in this article, and condense this section into prose. —Of the universe (say hello) 13:37, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]