India -BE

  • colonial office merged with war office

    under william pitt
  • Calcutta and Burma Steam Navigation Company

    Started by Sir William Mackintosh, later became the BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
    - traded with Indian Ocean, Burma, Zanzibar, Persian gulf and East African coast
  • Waterway railways developed

    Developed trade
  • Universities

    -1857- 60,000 went to university
    - 2000 in LAW
    - 1100 in GOV services
  • 236 million under british rule

  • Doctrine of Lapse

    stops hereditary inheritance and adopting heirs
  • Final battle at Gwalior

  • Power passed from BEIC to Crown

  • india office established

  • GOVT OF INDIA ACT

    • India council made - 15 members
    • governor general replaced by viceroy
    • british east india company under british govt control
  • Viceroy Canning 1859-61

    -irrigation schemes, transport railways, jobs, schools, markets, produce
    -some land and jobs given back to landlords
    - STAR OF INDIA medals introduced
    -imperial assembly and statutory civil service jobs offered to Indians
  • Royal Titles Act

    Reinforced Queen Victorias Empress title
    - DURBAR HELD- under Viceory Robert Lytton
  • Indian National Congress

    discussed public affairs
  • Indian national congress

    Campaign for home rule
  • Viceroy Curzon 1899-1905

    • reformed unis, and police -lowered tax -introduced gold standard -divided bengal -introduced imperial cadets force in 1901 -1901- created north west frontier province in retaliation to DEFENCE OF INDIA - protect border from Russia by merging Pashtun and Punjab
  • Representative government introduced

    Headed by viceroy, backed by Indian civil service
    - nearly all white, who attended oxbridge