India

Question 1

What happened in India in 1829

Answer 1

Sati made a criminal offence

Question 2

What happened in India in 1773

Answer 2

Bengal Famine: British imposed a Governor General

Question 3

What happened in India in 1600

Answer 3

Elizabeth I granted the East India Company the monopoly over trade in the East Indies

Question 4

What happened in India in 1757

Answer 4

Battle of Plassey lead to EIC gaining control of Bengal

Question 5

What happened in India in 1784

Answer 5

Government of India Act established a system of dual control by the EIC and British government

Question 6

What happened in India in 1803

Answer 6

Awash fail to pay subsidiary alliance fee and hence hand territory to the EIC

Question 7

What happened in India in 1813

Answer 7

Charter Act allocated 100k Rupees to fund Christian education in India. Allowed Christian missionaries

Question 8

What happened in India in 1828

Answer 8

William Bentinck appointed Governor General

Question 9

What happened in India in 1833

Answer 9

Charter Act

Question 10

What happened in India in 1835

Answer 10

Macauley’s Minute on Education

Question 11

What happened in India in 1848-56

Answer 11

Dalhousie appointed Governor General

Question 12

What happened in India in 1856

Answer 12

General Services Enlistment Act

Question 13

What happened in India in 1857 (FEB)

Answer 13

Issuing of new Enfield Rifle Cartridges

Question 14

What happened in India in 1857 (MARCH)

Answer 14

Manual Pandey Incident

Question 15

What happened in India in 1857 (MAY)

Answer 15

Mutiny began in Meerut and spread to Delhi

Question 16

What happened in India in 1958 (AUG)

Answer 16

Government of India Act

Question 17

What happened in India in 1858 (NOV)

Answer 17

Queen Victorias Proclamation

Question 18

Robert Clive/Clive of India

Answer 18

Controversial EIC nabob

Question 19

William Wilberforce

Answer 19

Evangelical MP

Question 20

William Bentinck

Answer 20

Benthamite Whig, Governor General from 1828-35

Question 21

William Sleeman

Answer 21

Commissioner for the Supression of Thuggee and Dacoity in the 1830s

Question 22

Lord Dalhousie

Answer 22

Governor General of India 1848-56. Alternatively seen as a great reformer and the cause of the Mutiny

Question 23

Charles ‘Clemency’ Canning

Answer 23

Governore of India during the Mutiny

Question 24

Bahadur Shah (1775-1862)

Answer 24

The last Mughal Emperor, declared leader of the Mutiny

Question 25

Manual Pandey

Answer 25

A sepoy of the 34th Bengal Regiment, who was regarded by many Hindus as a martyr as he was executed in April 1857 for starting a mutiny against British mistreatment of Hindus

Question 26

Nana Sahib

Answer 26

Disinherited as successor to the Maratha Kingdom through the Doctrine of Lapse. He was a leader of the Mutiny, organising the Cawnpore Massacre in June 1857

Question 27

Rani of Jhansi

Answer 27

23 year old princess, disinherited through Doctrine of Lapse. A well regarded warrior, she was leader of the Mutiny and died fighting the British in 1857

Question 28

Warding Ali Shah

Answer 28

popular ,but profligate, ruler of Awadh, widely seen as a martyr after the British used his alleged corruption as an excuse to annexe Awadh in 1856-7