Friday, April 19, 2013

EAST INDIA COMPANY RULE OF INDIA 1773-TO 1856-WHEN BRITISH GOVERNMENT TOOK OVER

Governor-GeneralPeriod of TenureEvents
Warren Hastings20 October 1773–1 February 1785Bengal famine of 1770 (1769–1773)
Rohilla War (1773–1774)
First Anglo-Maratha War (1777–1783)
Chalisa famine (1783–84)
Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784)
Charles Cornwallis12 September 1786–28 October 1793Cornwallis Code (1793)
Permanent Settlement
Cochin become semi-protected States under British (1791)
Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792)
Doji bara famine (1791–92)
Separation of judicial and revenue administrations
John Shore28 October 1793–March 1798East India Company Army reorganized and down-sized.
Jaipur (1794) & Travancore (1795) come under British protection.
Andaman Islands occupied (1796)
Company took control of coastal region Ceylon fromDutch (1796).
Richard Wellesley18 May 1798–30 July 1805Nizam of Hyderabad becomes first State to signSubsidiary alliance introduced by Wellesley (1798).
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799)
Nawab of Oudh cedes Gorakhpur and Rohilkhanddivisions; AllahabadFatehpurCawnporeEtawah,MainpuriEtah districts; part of Mirzapur; and terai ofKumaun (Ceded Provinces, 1801)
Treaty of Bassein signed by Peshwa Baji Rao IIaccepting Subsidiary Alliance
Battle of Delhi (1803).
Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805)
Remainder of Doab and Agra division, parts ofBundelkhand annexed from Maratha Empire (1805).
Ceded and Conquered Provinces established (1805)
Charles Cornwallis(second term)30 July 1805–5 October 1805Financial strain in East India Company after costly campaigns.
Cornwallis reappointed to bring peace, but dies inGhazipur.
George Hilario Barlow(locum tenens)10 October 1805–31 July 1807Vellore Mutiny (July 10, 1806)
Lord Minto31 July 1807–4 October 1813Invasion of Java
Occupation of Mauritius
Marquess of Hastings4 October 1813–9 January 1823Anglo-Nepal War of 1814
Annexation of KumaonGarhwal, and east Sikkim.
Cis-Sutlej states (1815).
Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818)
States of Rajputana accept British suzerainty (1817).
Singapore was founded (1818).
Cutch accepts British suzerainty (1818).
Gaikwads of Baroda accept British suzerainty (1819).
Central India Agency (1819).
Lord Amherst1 August 1823–13 March 1828First Anglo–Burmese War (1823–1826)
Annexation of AssamManipurArakan, andTenasserim from Burma
William Bentinck4 July 1828–20 March 1835Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829
Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848
Mysore State goes under British administration (1831–1881)
Bahawalpur accepts British Suzerainty (1833)
Coorg annexed (1834).
Lord Auckland4 March 1836–28 February 1842North-Western Provinces established (1836)
Post Offices were established (1837)
Agra famine of 1837–38
Aden is captured by Company (1839)[9]
First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)
Massacre of Elphinstone's army (1842).
Lord Ellenborough28 February 1842–June 1844First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)
Annexation of Sindh (1843)
Indian Slavery Act, 1843
Henry Hardinge23 July 1844–12 January 1848First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846)
Sikhs cede Jullundur DoabHazara, and Kashmir to the British under Treaty of Lahore (1846)
Sale of Kashmir to Gulab Singh of Jammu under Treaty of Amritsar (1846).
Marquess of Dalhousie12 January 1848–28 February 1856Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849)
Annexation of Punjab and North-West Frontier Province(1849)
Construction begins on Indian Railways (1850)
Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850
First telegraph line laid in India (1851)
Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852–1853)
Annexation of Lower Burma
Great Ganges Canal opened (1854)
Annexation of Satara (1848), Jaipur and Sambalpur(1849), Nagpur and Jhansi (1854) under Doctrine of Lapse.
Annexation of Berar (1853) and Awadh (1856).
Postage Stamps for India were introduced. (1854).
Public Telegram services starts operation (1855).
Charles Canning28 February 1856–1 November 1858Hindu Widows Remarriage Act (July 25, 1856)
First Indian universities founded (January–September 1857)
Indian Rebellion of 1857 (10 May 1857–20 June 1858) largely in North-Western Provinces and Oudh
Liquidation of the English East India Company underGovernment of India Act 1858

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