Governors-General and Viceroys: a cross-cutting reference
Viceroys 1858-1899
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Canning as first Viceroy: Councils Act 1861, Indian Penal Code 1860, Indigo Commission, Wahabi trials under Elgin I
- Lawrence: Orissa famine 1866, Bhutan war; Mayo: financial decentralisation 1870, Mayo College, first census 1872, assassinated at Port Blair 1872
- Northbrook: Bihar famine, Baroda case; Lytton: Delhi Durbar 1877, Vernacular Press Act and Arms Act 1878, Statutory Civil Service 1879, Second Anglo-Afghan war, Strachey Famine Commission
- Ripon: repeal of Vernacular Press Act 1882, local self-government resolution 1882, Hunter Commission 1882, Factory Act 1881, Ilbert Bill 1883
- Dufferin: Congress founded 1885, Third Anglo-Burmese war 1885, Aitchison Commission; Lansdowne: Councils Act 1892, Age of Consent Act 1891, Factory Act 1891, Durand line 1893
- Elgin II: famine 1896-97, plague, Lyall Famine Commission, Chapekar killing of Rand
Where to study
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 5 Expansion and Consolidation of British Power in India
- ch. 26 Constitutional, Administrative and Judicial Developments
- ch. 27 Survey of British Policies in India
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 5: When People Revolt: 1857 and After
- ch. 5 When People Revolt: 1857 and After, Aftermath, pp. 10-11 (printed 60-61)
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The Emergence of Nationalism, p. 2 (printed 94)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The Emergence of Nationalism, pp. 2-3 (printed 94-95)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The Emergence of Nationalism, p. 3 (printed 95)
India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others
- ch. 8 The Fight to Secure Press Freedom, pp. 102-112
- ch. 4 Foundation of the Congress: The Myth, pp. 61-70
- ch. 11 The Split in the Congress and the Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism, pp. 135-145