Governors-General & Colonial Administration till 1857

Knowledge Themes

Structural Subtopics

• Regulating Act of 1773 and its impact on centralized governance
• Permanent Settlement of 1793 and Cornwallis Code
• Introduction and evolution of the Subsidiary Alliance system
• Doctrine of Lapse and the annexation of princely states
• Ryotwari and Mahalwari land revenue settlements
• Charter Act of 1813 and the end of Company trade monopoly
• Charter Act of 1833 and the centralization of legislative power
• Judicial reforms from Warren Hastings to Lord William Bentinck
• Police and civil service reforms under Lord Cornwallis
• Development of modern infrastructure including railways and telegraph under Dalhousie
• Suppression of social practices like Sati and Thuggee
• Macaulay’s Minute of 1835 and the introduction of English education
• Wood’s Despatch of 1854 on vocational and female education
• Administrative causes leading to the Revolt of 1857