Indian Mutiny- key dates

Question 1

Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras, says there is no point in trying to ‘make Anglo-Saxons of the Hindoos’. He also says ‘I have no faith in the modern doctrine of the improvement of the Hindus’.

Answer 1

1813

Question 2

Missionaries restricted from entry into India

Answer 2

Pre-1813

Question 3

Company’s charter came up for renewal, providing missionaries with an opportunity

Answer 3

1813

Question 4

Parliament vote to allow missionaries, after receiving 837 petitions signed by 500,000 people. New East India Act also provided for the appointment of a bishop and three archdeacons for India.

Answer 4

1813

Question 5

Missionary George Gogerly arrives in India

Answer 5

1819

Question 6

Reginald Heber appointed as second Bishop of Calcutta, and offers much more encouragement to missionaries.

Answer 6

1823

Question 7

Fifty-eight Church Missionary Society preachers active in India

Answer 7

1832

Question 8

John Stuart Mill’s ‘Considerations on Representative Government’ argued for the modernisation of India

Answer 8

1861

Question 9

Maharajah of Marwar was persuaded to pass a law prohibiting female infanticide

Answer 9

1839

Question 10

A systematic survey found that female infanticide was an endemic in Gorakhpur, Ghazipur and Mirzapur

Answer 10

1854

Question 11

An Act is passed banning female infanticide in the North Western Provinces

Answer 11

1870

Question 12

William Sleeman had captured and tried 3,266 thugs

Answer 12

1838

Question 13

A total of 8,000 women died of sati in this period

Answer 13

1813-1825

Question 14

A regulation requiring the presence of an official during sati to ensure that the widow was not under sixteen or pregnant seemed to condone sati in all other cases

Answer 14

1812

Question 15

Bentinck appointed as governor

Answer 15

1827

Question 16

Bentinck bans sati

Answer 16

1829

Question 17

Mutiny in Vellore

Answer 17

1806

Question 18

19th Bengal Infantry rejects the new cartridges

Answer 18

26th February 1857

Question 19

Mutiny begins in Meerut, when eighty-five sepoys that were court-martialled for rejecting the cartridges are freed by their comrades. The sepoys set about killing every European they can find.

Answer 19

9th May 1857

Question 20

Cawnpore is besieged, and 200 European women and children slaughtered.

Answer 20

June 1857

Question 21

British forces retake Lucknow nine months after the siege began. By this time, two-thirds of the British community that had been trapped were dead.

Answer 21

21st March 1858

Question 22

British annex Awadh (Oudh) under the doctrine of lapse

Answer 22

1857

Question 23

The London Missionary Society decides to send 20 additional missionaries to India over the next two years

Answer 23

1858

Question 24

British officials had reverted to the habit of their predecessors of the 1820s in regarding missionaries as subversive

Answer 24

1880s