raj

1. (proscribed) The whole period of British influence or rule in the Indian subcontinent from the 1600s to 1947.countablehistoricalproscribeduncountable

1. (by extension from the proper noun) A system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group.Examples: "After Gandhiji's Ram Raj, which lived and went with him to the wilderness, it was Goonda Raj everywhere[...]There was nothing that the goonda did not manpiulate. He turned community development blocks into chips of self-aggrandisement. Panchyat Raj was the Pentagon of Goonda Raj."; "Concern that the license - permit quota raj was stifling growth focused on the drop in the rate of growth in industry after 1965..."broadlyhistorical

1. (India, journalism) Abbreviation of Rajasthan.Indiaabbreviationalt-ofhistorical