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WHEN DID B TAKE OVER INDIA
1757
1757 GEOGRAPHYCALLY
NORTH INDIA- MOGHUL EMPIRE CENTRAL- BIG EMPIRE SOUTH- SMALL TRIBES
1757-1857
LAST HUNDRED YEARS OF THE MOGHU EMPIRE. B ALLOWED MOGHUL KIGS TO STAY ON THE THRONE, BUT THEY HAD NO REAL POWER AT ALL. IN 1857- B TOLD THE LAST KING BYE BYE ITS TIME TO GO
WHAT DID B DECIDE TO DO IN THR 1600S TO THE LATE 1700S?
OPEN UP COLONIES ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
-WEALTHY B CITIZENS INVESTED IN COLONIAL CALONIES
- KING GOT THE $ FROM TAXES AND ROYAL CHARTER
BASICALLY, ITS IF SUCCESSFUL, KING COLLECTS $ FROM TAXES AND U 50-6- % OF THE MONEY. U NEED PERMISSION TO START COLONY FROM TE KING, AND KING PLACED NOTHING IN RISK IF THE COLONY DIDNT TURN UP WELL.
1773
REGULATING ACT. PARLIMENT ASSIGNED A GOV GEN TO MANAGE THE BEIC
1784
INDIA ACT. BEIC WAS ABLOISHED AND A NEW GOV GEN WAS APPOINTED BY PARLIMENT TO HAVE 100% CONTROL IF INDIA.
WHY WAS THE INDIA ACT CREATED?
1.GREED 2.LOYALTY 3. AMERICAN REVOLUTION BTW KING WAS KING GEORGE
GEN CHARLES GUNWALLS
COMMANDER OF B ARMIES DURING AMERICAN REVOLUTION. SINCE HE AND THE KING WERE CLOSE FRIENDS, HE WAS SENT TO GOVERN THE INDIA COLONY AS A SECOND CHANCE. HE MADE SO MUCH MORE MONEY FOR THE KING
HOW DID GUNWALLS INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY CMING INTO BRITAIN
1- INTRODUCED BRITISH STYLE TAX REFORMS (IMPROVED TAX COLLECTION) 2- CHANGED OWNERSHIP RIGHTS WHICH MADE THE LANDLORD
HOW DID GUNWALLS AFFECT CIVIL SERVICE?
BEFORE, ONLY UPPER CASTE AND RICH PEOPLE COULD HAVE WORKED IN GOV BUT NOW ANYONE COULD HAVE.
1805 (WHATS HAPPENING)
GOV GENERAL DIES. NORTH WAS STILL N MOGHUL HANDS BUT EVERYTHING ELSE WAS IN BRITISH HANDS.
SEPOY TROOPS
HINDUS, muslims, and sikhs, all who were fighting for them britis. formed before ww1, but b said if they fought in ww1 they would leave, b never kept that promise.
sikhs
new religion combined with muslim and hndu. believed in dharma karma and samsara NO CASTE
WHAT WERE THE MOTIVATIONS TO JOIN SEPOY
HINDU- KASHATRA, ONLY ARMY, WANTED MONEY, AND DHARMA MUSLIMS- DID NOT WANT THE TRAINED HINDUS TO KILL THEM, SO THEY THEN JOINED TOO SIKHS- B DID NOT DISCRIMINATE THEM, SO THEY VIEWED B AS LIBERATORS.
SUTTEE
BURNING OF THE WOMEN ALIVE WHEN HUSBANDS DIE ABOLISHED IN 1829 WHEN B DISCOVERED IT