Ch. 6.3 British Rule in India

Question 1

sepoy

Answer 1

hired Indian soldiers of BEIC (British East India Co.). protect company’s interests in the region

Question 2

viceroy

Answer 2

governor who ruled as rep. of monarch

Question 3

(a) attitude

Answer 3

“A famous expression of this ATTITUDE came from Thomas Macaulay, a government official asked to recommend the kind of education system India should have.”

Question 4

(a) transfer

Answer 4

“As a result of the uprising, the British Parliament TRANSFERRED the powers of the East India Company directly to the British government.”

Question 5

(p) Queen Victoria

Answer 5

1876: Empress of India. India became “Jewel in the Crown”

Question 6

(p) Indian National Congress

Answer 6

(INC) 1885: small group of Indians that met in Bombay. call for share in governing process. difficulties because of religious differences.

Question 7

(p) Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 7

born 1869. study and became lawyer. lived as lawyer in S. Africa—>return to India and became active in independence movement. nonviolent. Mahatma=great soul

Question 8

(pl) Kanpur

Answer 8

(Cawnpore) armed Indians massacred 200 women and children in the House of the Ladies. British took revenge.

Question 9

(pl) Mumbai

Answer 9

(Bombay) many Indian nationalists from here.