Indian Mutiny- key dates Flashcards
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’.
1813
Missionaries restricted from entry into India
Pre-1813
Company’s charter came up for renewal, providing missionaries with an opportunity
1813
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.
1813
Missionary George Gogerly arrives in India
1819
Reginald Heber appointed as second Bishop of Calcutta, and offers much more encouragement to missionaries.
1823
Fifty-eight Church Missionary Society preachers active in India
1832
John Stuart Mill’s ‘Considerations on Representative Government’ argued for the modernisation of India
1861
Maharajah of Marwar was persuaded to pass a law prohibiting female infanticide
1839
A systematic survey found that female infanticide was an endemic in Gorakhpur, Ghazipur and Mirzapur
1854
An Act is passed banning female infanticide in the North Western Provinces
1870
William Sleeman had captured and tried 3,266 thugs
1838
A total of 8,000 women died of sati in this period
1813-1825
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
1812
Bentinck appointed as governor
1827
Bentinck bans sati
1829
Mutiny in Vellore
1806
19th Bengal Infantry rejects the new cartridges
26th February 1857
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.
9th May 1857
Cawnpore is besieged, and 200 European women and children slaughtered.
June 1857
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.
21st March 1858
British annex Awadh (Oudh) under the doctrine of lapse
1857
The London Missionary Society decides to send 20 additional missionaries to India over the next two years
1858
British officials had reverted to the habit of their predecessors of the 1820s in regarding missionaries as subversive
1880s
