ผลต่างระหว่างรุ่นของ "รัฐมหาราชา"

ในความหมายโดยทั่วไปคำว่าบริติชอินเดียอาจใช้อ้างถึงดินแดนที่อยู่ภายใต้การปกครองของ[[บริษัทอินเดียตะวันออกของอังกฤษ]]ในช่วงระหว่างปี ค.ศ. 1774 - 1858<ref>'''1.''' ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, volume IV, published under the authority of the [[India Office|Secretary of State for India-in-Council]]'', 1909, Oxford University Press. page 5. Quote: "The history of British India falls, as observed by Sir C. P. Ilbert in his ''Government of India'', into three periods. From the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century the East India Company is a trading corporation, existing on the sufferance of the native powers and in rivalry with the merchant companies of Holland and France. During the next century the Company acquires and consolidates its dominion, shares its sovereignty in increasing proportions with the Crown, and gradually loses its mercantile privileges and functions. After the mutiny of 1857 the remaining powers of the Company are transferred to the Crown, and then follows an era of peace in which India awakens to new life and progress." '''2.''' ''The Statutes: From the Twentieth Year of King Henry the Third to the ...'' by Robert Harry Drayton, Statutes of the Realm – Law – 1770 Page 211 (3) "Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the law of British India and of the several parts thereof existing immediately before the appointed ..." '''3.''' Edney, M. E. (1997) [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=40921 ''Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843''] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20110521135907/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=40921 |date=2011-05-21 }}, University of Chicago Press. 480 pages. ISBN 978-0-226-18488-3 '''4.''' Hawes, C.J. (1996) [http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&dq=+%22British+India%22&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773–1833]. Routledge, 217 pages. ISBN 0-7007-0425-6.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. II|1908|pp=463, 470}} Quote'''1''': "Before passing on to the political history of British India, which properly begins with the Anglo-French Wars in the [[Carnatic region|Carnatic]], ... (p. 463)" Quote'''2''': "The political history of the British in India begins in the eighteenth century with the French Wars in the Carnatic. (p.471)"</ref> นอกจากนี้ยังเป็นคำที่ใช้อ้างอิงถึงการปกครองของอังกฤษในอินเดีย