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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
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Doctrine of Lapse
stops hereditary inheritance and adopting heirs -
Final battle at Gwalior
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Power passed from BEIC to Crown
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india office established
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GOVT OF INDIA ACT
- India council made - 15 members
- governor general replaced by viceroy
- british east india company under british govt control
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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
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Representative government introduced
Headed by viceroy, backed by Indian civil service
- nearly all white, who attended oxbridge