British India: Consequences of the Rebellion (India’s administration)

Question 1

What happened on the 2nd of August 1858?

Answer 1

Government of India Act was passed

Question 2

When was the government of India act passed?

Answer 2

2nd of August 1858

Question 3

What was the 1858 Government of India Act?

Answer 3

East India Company was stripped of its powers over India and replaced with direct crown rule. The companies General now had a new title (Viceroy) and he, along with the Executive Council now ran India

Question 4

What did the British believe about their ‘benign rule’?

Answer 4

Liberating experience for Indians

Question 5

What did the Whig reformist T.B. Macauley believe?

Answer 5

Educating Indians so that they became “English in taste, in opinions, in morals” were sufficient to justify the British domination of the Subcontinent

Question 6

What was the name given to the East India Company’s Governor-General?

Answer 6

New title Viceroy

Question 7

Who was the viceroy?

Answer 7

East India Company’s Governor-General

Question 8

Who ran India alongside the viceroy?

Answer 8

Executive council

Question 9

Who now ran India?

Answer 9

Viceroy and the executive council

Question 10

What was the relevance of the Viceroy and Executive council?

Answer 10

They now ran India

Question 11

Who was the viceroy answerable to?

Answer 11

Newly created Secretary of State for India and Indias council (fifteen advisors )

Question 12

What Indian group were given more powers to due to their loyalty?

Answer 12

Indian Princes

Question 13

What were Indian princes given?

Answer 13

Granted greater powers by the British

Question 14

In return for absolute loyalty from the princes, what did the British agree to do?

Answer 14

To halt their policy of annexation

Question 15

Why did the British agree to halt their policy of annexation?

Answer 15

In return for loyalty from the Princes

Question 16

What were the powers of the Viceroy identical to?

Answer 16

Governor General

Question 17

How many advisors were in the ’India Council’?

Answer 17

15

Question 18

What council had 15 advisors?

Answer 18

‘India Council’

Question 19

Who was in the ‘India council’?

Answer 19

Made up of ex-East India Company employees who had very conservative views

Question 20

What happened in November 1858?

Answer 20

Queen Victoria issued a proclamation promising that ‘the principle of perfect equality was to exist, as far as appointments was concerned, between Europeans and Natives’

Question 21

When did Queen Victoria issued a proclamation promising that ‘the principle of perfect equality was to exist, as far as appointments was concerned, between Europeans and Natives’

Answer 21

November 1858

Question 22

What did Queen Victoria say in November 1858?

Answer 22

proclamation promising that ‘the principle of perfect equality was to exist, as far as appointments was concerned, between Europeans and Natives’

Question 23

Who said issued a proclamation promising that ‘the principle of perfect equality was to exist, as far as appointments was concerned, between Europeans and Natives’ and when was that done?

Answer 23

Queen Victoria during November 1858

Question 24

What council had 2 places reserved for Indians?

Answer 24

Newly-created Central Legislative council

Question 25

How did the Newly-created Central Legislative council include Indians?

Answer 25

They had 2 places reserved for Indian members

Question 26

What was the limitation of the Newly-created Central Legislative council?

Answer 26

No effective power so they couldn’t overrule the real government of India (The viceroys Executive council )

Question 27

What happened in 1877?

Answer 27

Benjamin Disraeli had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India

Question 28

When did Benjamin Disraeli had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India

Answer 28

1877

Question 29

Why was Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India in 1877?

Answer 29

Gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain

Question 30

When and what was the name of celebrations held in Delhi to proclaim Queen Elizabeth as Empress of India?

Answer 30

1st January 1877 known as Delhi Durbar

Question 31

What happened on the first of January 1877?

Answer 31

Delhi Durbar led by Viceroy Lord Lytton which was a celebration that proclaimed Queen Victoria as empress of India

Question 32

When was the Delhi Durbar?

Answer 32

1st of January 1877

Question 33

Who led the celebrations for the Delhi Durbar?

Answer 33

Viceroy, Lord Lytton

Question 34

What crown was Queen Victoria given?

Answer 34

Crown worn by the last Mughal Emperor

Question 35

What happened to the crown of the last Mughal emperor?

Answer 35

Given to Queen Victoria even though she never used it

Question 36

What animals and people attended the Deli Durbar?

Answer 36

``` Elephants Attended by: Indian Maharajahs Nawabs Intellectuals ‘Equally reflective of traditional India’ ```

Question 37

What did the conservative viceroy, George Curzon, say in 1903?

Answer 37

‘The keynote of the British policy in India has been to conserve all the best features in the fabric of native society’

Question 38

Why was Indian not a topical issue in parliament?

Answer 38

Indian affairs were remote so many members of parliament didn’t care. Therefore, the Secretary of State and could operate the cabinet as he saw fit.

Question 39

When was the central legislative council expanded?

Answer 39

1861 by the additional of members who were Indian

Question 40

What happened to the Central legislative council in 1861?

Answer 40

Expanded by the addition of several non-Indian members

Question 41

Where were legislative councils formed?

Answer 41

Bengal, Punjab and the North-West Province

Question 42

Who was the prime minister that took a liberal viewpoint?

Answer 42

William Gladstone

Question 43

Who was the prime minister that had a more conservative view?

Answer 43

Benjamin Disraeli

Question 44

What did William Gladstone want to see in India?

Answer 44

Pushing forward Christianity but allowing for some Indian representation

Question 45

What did Disraeli believe?

Answer 45

Pulling back on change but viewing the Indians as inferior

Question 46

When was William Gladstone prime minister?

Answer 46

1868-74 1880-85 1892-94

Question 47

When was Disraeli prime minister?

Answer 47

1868 | 1874-1880

Question 48

When was the London missionary Society reports?

Answer 48

1858

Question 49

What happened in 1858?

Answer 49

London Missionary Society

Question 50

What did the 1858 London missionary society report disclaim?

Answer 50

Resolves to send 20 extra missionaries to India over the next two years

Question 51

What resolved to send 20 extra missionaries to India over the next two years?

Answer 51

1858 London missionary society

Question 52

What did the liberals see the rebellion as?

Answer 52

God’s judgment for failing to press on enough with Christianisation as Christians rebelled

Question 53

Who saw the rebellion as God’s judgment for failing to press on enough with Christianisation as Christians rebelled?

Answer 53

Liberal (William Gladstone)

Question 54

What was the relationship that the liberals wanted to keep with the Indians?

Answer 54

Close political bond between people and government. Indians need rights and representation

Question 55

What did the conservatives think about the European way of life?

Answer 55

This was right and good but saw the Indians incapable of enlightenment

Question 56

What did the conservatives want to move away from in terms of their policies with India?

Answer 56

Shift away from enlightenment in the 1830s

Question 57

What was the “white mans burden”?

Answer 57

Saw it as the responsibility of white people to look after the ‘new caught sullen people’, who cannot look after themselves

Question 58

What word was used to describe those who Saw it as the responsibility of white people to look after the ‘new caught sullen people’, who cannot look after themselves

Answer 58

White mans burden

Question 59

What did Lord Ripon believe about the discrimination between Indians and Europeans?

Answer 59

Inhuman and unjust

Question 60

What did Sir Courtenary Ilbert introduced under the orders of Viceroy Lord Ripon?

Answer 60

“Ilbert bill” which had abolished discrimination between the Indians and Europeans

Question 61

What was the “Ilbert bill”?

Answer 61

Bill released by Sir Courtenay Ilbert, which abolished discrimination between Indians and Europeans

Question 62

What was the reaction to the “Ilbert bill”?

Answer 62

Intense opposition in Britain and from British settlers within India Particularly British tea and indigo plantation owners and Bengal led by Griffith Evans

Question 63

After the Ilbert act, what did Hugh Maxwell say about Lord Ripon and Sir Ilbert?

Answer 63

‘’How unfit the native mind is to appreciate and sympathise with the European ideas of administering the government of a country and people’

Question 64

In the reformed ‘’Ilbert act’, what happened to white defendants?

Answer 64

If tried by an Indian magistrate, then they had the right to ask for a jury made up of at least 50% white members

Question 65

What was set up in December 1885?

Answer 65

Indian national congress

Question 66

When was the Indian national congress found?

Answer 66

December 1885