Proprialisation of raj (“(India) reign, rule”, noun), borrowed from Hindustani
राज / راج (rāj, “reign, rule; empire, kingdom; country, state; royalty”), from Sanskrit राज्य (rājyá, “empire, kingdom, realm; kingship, royalty, sovereignty; country”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right or straighten oneself; to govern, rule; just; right”). Doublet of Reich.
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(broadly, from the proper noun, historical) A system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group.
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. 1965, New Race, volume 1:
Concern that the license - permit quota raj was stifling growth focused on the drop in the rate of growth in industry after 1965... 1999, Ronald J. Herring, edited by Meredith Jung-En Woo, The Developmental State, →ISBN, page 310:
Licence Raj; Mafia Raj; Goonda Raj
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pl radż (system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group) · hi राज (system of government where authority is exercised by a specific group)
Proprialisation of raj (“(India) reign, rule”, noun), borrowed from Hindustani
राज / راج (rāj, “reign, rule; empire, kingdom; country, state; royalty”), from Sanskrit राज्य (rājyá, “empire, kingdom, realm; kingship, royalty, sovereignty; country”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right or straighten oneself; to govern, rule; just; right”). Doublet of Reich.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, historical, uncountable) Ellipsis of British Raj, the period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire between 1858 and 1947.
pl Indie Brytyjskie (period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire — see also British Raj) · hi राज (period of colonial rule of the Indian subcontinent by the British Empire — see also British Raj)