Key date timeline 1857-1890 (India)

Question 1

1857 (education)

Answer 1

University Act created, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta universities made.

Question 2

1857 (waterway)

Answer 2

Canals created throughout India such as Ganges Canal.

Question 3

1858

Answer 3

Victoria Proclamation -declared that thereafter India would be governed by and in the name of the British Monarch through a Secretary of State.

Government of India Act

Question 4

1868

Answer 4

Mary Carpenter set up a training college for female Indian teachers.

Question 5

1851-1871 change in Tea Plantations?

Answer 5

1 to 295

Question 6

1877

Answer 6

Queen Victoria became Empress of India.
(gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India more closely to Britain)

Question 7

1877-79

Answer 7

Anglo-Afghan War

Question 8

1885

Answer 8

Indian National Congress established

Question 9

1886

Answer 9

Colonial and Indian exhibition, 5 million British attended.

Question 10

How many Indians had joined the Indian Civil Service by 1890? Out of 1070 people?

Answer 10

50