Company administration and colonial economy
Civil service, police, army and courts under the Company
Concepts to cover
- Cornwallis code 1793: separation of revenue and justice, Europeanised covenanted service, Haileybury 1806
- Cornwallis's thana and daroga system; Bentinck's superintendents; Police Commission 1860 and Police Act 1861
- Warren Hastings's adalats, Sadar Diwani and Nizamat Adalats, Supreme Court 1774, Macaulay's Indian Penal Code 1860 and Civil Procedure codes
- Company's presidency armies, sepoy recruitment, General Service Enlistment Act 1856 and pre-1857 mutinies (Vellore 1806, Barrackpore 1824)
Where to study
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 26 Constitutional, Administrative and Judicial Developments
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 2: From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power
- ch. 2 From Trade to Territory, Setting up a New Administration, pp. 13-14 (printed 21-22)
- ch. 2 From Trade to Territory, Setting up a New Administration, p. 14 (printed 22)
- ch. 2 From Trade to Territory, The Company army, pp. 14-15 (printed 22-23)
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 5: When People Revolt: 1857 and After
- ch. 5 When People Revolt: 1857 and After, The peasants and the sepoys, p. 2 (printed 52)