History UsefulNotes / TheRaj

* ''''Film/BhowaniJunction'''' an Creator/AvaGardner film about a LoveTriangle between an Anglo-Indian woman, a British colonel, and a Sikh man as well as an Anglo-Indian rail worker, set during the days before Partition.

* ''Bhowani Junction'' an Creator/AvaGardner film about a LoveTriangle between an Anglo-Indian woman, a British colonel and a Sikh man as well as an Anglo-Indian rail worker, set during the days before Partition.

For the army of The Raj see UsefulNotes/KiplingsFinest .

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* At least two of Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett's works take place during this time period.
** ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'': Sarah Crewe's father, Mr. Crewe had business in India and moved there. Sarah was born there later.
** ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Mary Lennox is born to English parents that live in India. She moves to England when they die.
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* ''Anime/PrincessSarah'' takes place in the 1800s time period. Sarah Crewe's father works in India and little Sarah was born and raised there.
* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Mary Lennox was born and raised in India, but she is ethnically British. Her parents were wealthy socialites who moved to the country to live luxurious lives amongst their fellow British elites. When Mary is 9 years old, her parents die of cholera, and she has to move to England to live with her uncle Archibald Craven.
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** ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'': Sarah Crewe was born and raised in India. Her parents were wealthy immigrants who moved there for leisure purposes. The book presumably takes place around 1905 (judging by the descriptions of England and the date it was published).
** ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'': Mary Lennox is the child of wealthy parents that refuse to pay proper attention to her and instead leave her in the care of servants. The book contains some major ValuesDissonance material[[note]]Such as Martha's infamous "There are a lot of blacks [in India] instead of respectable white people" line and Mary saying that Indians "aren't people" and must "always salaam to you". Modern adaptations [[CulturallySensitiveAdaptation cut this out]][[/note]]. It presumbaly takes place around 1911-12 (the date it was published).
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* ''Literature/APassageToIndia''

* ''Literature/TheGreatGame''
* ''Literature/TheSteamHouse''
* ''Literature/TheFarPavilions'': A sprawling, 1,000 epic tale of Ashton Pelham-Martyn, a British man who was raised as an Indian and struggles with his identity and loyalty after he returns to India as a British soldier in service to the Raj. Not to mention, his love of the beautiful Anjuli - an Indian woman and his childhood friend.
* The wildly successful early-80s British TV drama series ''Series/TheJewelInTheCrown'', based on a series of four novels by Paul Scott, is set in India during the final years of the Raj and the transition to independence and partition.
* ''Series/RippingYarns'': The episode "Roger of the Raj"
* ''Series/IndianSummers'': A (2015 - ongoing) richly historical, period series about the twilight of the British Raj in 1930's Simla, India - the summer headquarters of the British government, headed by a diverse cast of Brits and Indians and featuring plenty of politics, romances, scandals, intrigue and the like.
* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': Lord Grantham's cousin by marriage and Lady Rose's father, Hugh "Shrimpie" [=MacClare=], Marquess of Flintshire, is a Foreign/Colonial Service officer assigned to be Viceroy in Bombay; in Series 4, O'Brien is PutOnABus to Bombay when Lady Flintshire takes her on as her new lady's maid.

* Some of the ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'' novels are set in the Raj:
** ''Quest for a Throne'' is about Yanez and Sandokan helping the former's wife Surama in taking over Assam, ruled by her cousin Sindhia who sold her to the Thuggee cult after killing his mad predecessor Purandar Singha (that went unnamed in the series), who had just murdered the rest of the family;
** ''The Brahman'' and ''An Empire Crumbles'' (originally written as a single novel and divided by ExecutiveMeddling) detail an insurrection in Assam against Yanez's rule, while ''Yanez's Revenge'' sees him and Sandokan defeating the insurrection;
** While also set in India, ''The Mystery of the Black Jungle'' and ''The Two Tigers'' are ''not'' set in the Raj, as the former is set before the Mutiny of 1857 and the latter has the Mutiny as its background (the fight being a major obstacle in chasing Suyodhana and freeing Tremal Naik's daughter, with the final chapters being Sandokan's group infiltrating the besieged Delhi and then successfully killing Suyodhana and freeing Tremal Naik's daughter right before the British assault).
* ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' has Phileas Fogg crossing the Indian subcontinent by train, stopping to rescue a princess. Consequently pretty much every film adaptation, such as ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays1956'' and ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'', also has scenes there.
* ''Series/{{Westworld}}'': Season 2 introduces park 6 which is called The Raj.
* Creator/JeanRenoir's ''Film/{{The River|1951}}'' is a year in the life of a British family that runs a jute mill on the Ganges River.
* ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' deals with Henry Avery's heist of the Ganj-I-Sawai and the extended lore and background information touches on the importance of that event in the EITC era.

Paranoid at the violence inflicted by non-Europeans on its European settler population (this being the nineteenth century, aka the golden age of white supremacy[[note]]English officers often called local Indians the N-Word in contemporary letters and correspondence, making no bones about the racist context in how they saw their rule[[/note]]), Parliament passed an act which nationalised the company, albeit with significant compensation given to shareholders and other businessmen, and with no punishment or trial held for their war crimes on the Indian people. The last Emperor of the Mughal Empire had been touted as a figurehead-leader by the rebellious mercenaries and so he'd been exiled to Rangoon by the Company, and an officer summarily murdered the Mughal Indian Princes and several members of the royal family were executed in the aftermath of the rebellion. This left the official position of 'Emperor Of UsefulNotes/{{India}}' vacant and it led PM UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli to nominate Queen Victoria as the Empress of India making her and the Raj, in the eyes of local Indians, the successor of the Mughals and other local princes who were left alone and allowed to think of themselves as vassals of the British Crown.[[note]]This was also considered important outside of India, on account of rise of UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany. It simply wouldn't do to have Queen Victoria "outranked" by the upstart German Emperor Wilhem I. And even worse, Victoria's daughter was married to the German Emperor's only son, and when he became Emperor Friedrich III that would result in Victoria being also outranked by her own daughter. Making her the Queen-Empress guaranteed that Victoria retained her "proper" place as the highest-ranking royal in Europe.[[/note]]

* ''Film/WeeWillieWinkie'' is a Creator/ShirleyTemple vehicle in which Shirley winds up living with her grandfather, who happens to be the commander of a British regiment on the frontier of the Raj, fighting the Afghans. C. Aubrey Smith gives a ShutUpKirk speech about the importance of duty on the frontier.

Paranoid at the violence inflicted by non-Europeans on its European settler population (this being the nineteenth century, aka the golden age of white supremacy[[note]]English officers often called local Indians the N-Word in contemporary letters and correspondence, making no bones about the racist context in how they saw their rule[[/note]]), Parliament passed an act which nationalised the company, albeit with significant compensation given to shareholders and other businessmen, and with no punishment or trial held for their war crimes on the Indian people. The last Emperor of the Mughal Empire had been touted as a figurehead-leader by the rebellious mercenaries and so he'd been exiled to Rangoon by the Company, and an officer summarily murdered the Mughal Indian Princes and several members of the royal family were executed in the aftermath of the rebellion. This left the official position of 'Emperor Of UsefulNotes/{{India}}' vacant and it led PM UsefulNotes/BejaminDisraeli to nominate Queen Victoria as the Empress of India making her and the Raj, in the eyes of local Indians, the successor of the Mughals and other local princes who were left alone and allowed to think of themselves as vassals of the British Crown.[[note]]This was also considered important outside of India, on account of rise of UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany. It simply wouldn't do to have Queen Victoria "outranked" by the upstart German Emperor Wilhem I. And even worse, Victoria's daughter was married to the German Emperor's only son, and when he became Emperor Friedrich III that would result in Victoria being also outranked by her own daughter. Making her the Queen-Empress guaranteed that Victoria retained her "proper" place as the highest-ranking royal in Europe.[[/note]]

Paranoid at the violence inflicted by non-Europeans on its European settler population (this being the nineteenth century, aka the golden age of white supremacy[[note]]English officers often called local Indians the N-Word in contemporary letters and correspondence, making no bones about the racist context in how they saw their rule[[/note]], Parliament passed an act which nationalised the company, albeit with significant compensation given to shareholders and other businessmen, and with no punishment or trial held for their war crimes on the Indian people. The last Emperor of the Mughal Empire had been touted as a figurehead-leader by the rebellious mercenaries and so he'd been exiled to Rangoon by the Company, and an officer summarily murdered the Mughal Indian Princes and several members of the royal family were executed in the aftermath of the rebellion. This left the official position of 'Emperor Of UsefulNotes/{{India}}' vacant and it led PM UsefulNotes/BejaminDisraeli to nominate Queen Victoria as the Empress of India making her and the Raj, in the eyes of local Indians, the successor of the Mughals and other local princes who were left alone and allowed to think of themselves as vassals of the British Crown.[[note]]This was also considered important outside of India, on account of rise of UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany. It simply wouldn't do to have Queen Victoria "outranked" by the upstart German Emperor Wilhem I. And even worse, Victoria's daughter was married to the German Emperor's only son, and when he became Emperor Friedrich III that would result in Victoria being also outranked by her own daughter. Making her the Queen-Empress guaranteed that Victoria retained her "proper" place as the highest-ranking royal in Europe.[[/note]]