Survey of British Policies in India

Question 1

Indian Factory Act, 1881

Answer 1

employment of children under 7 years of age
prohibited

working hours restricted to 9 hours per day for children

children to get four holidays in a month,

Question 2

Indian Factory Act, 1891

Answer 2

increased the minimum age (from 7 to 9 years) and
the maximum (from 12 to 14 years) for children

reduced maximum working hours for children to 7
hours a day,

fixed maximum working hours for women at 11
hours per day with

provided weekly holiday for all

Question 3

Conservative

Answer 3

advocated introduction of as few changes as possible

was different from the European one but not necessarily inferior to it

Warren Hastings Edmund Burke Munro, Metcalfe, and Elphinstone

Question 4

Paternalistic Imperialists

Answer 4

sharply critical of Indian society and culture after 1800.

Question 5

Radicals

Answer 5

applied advanced humanistic and rational thought to the Indian situation. after 1820

Question 6

was later made clear by that the princes ruled their states merely as agents of the British Crown

Answer 6

Lord Curzon