Lindsay Bell's List: HST 325

• 1786, Lord Cornwallis became British governor of Inida
• In 1813, the monopoly of the English East India Company was broken and all British citizens were allowed to trade with India.
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• They made English, instead of Persian, the official language. They prohibited suttee (in which Hindu widows threw themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres) and infanticide. They also allowed Hindu widows to remarry and sanctioned missionary activity.   

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• 1858, the British Parliament passed the Government of India Act. This act transferred autority for India from the East India Company to Queen Victoria.
• 1876, Queen Victoria declared herself "Empress of India."
• British developed their own society in India separate from the native society
• British goods were imported to India, effectively destroying m

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• May 10, 1857
• The British victories were accompanied by widespread recrimination, and in many cases, unarmed sepoys were bayonetted, sown up in the carcasses of pigs or cows, or fired from cannons.

• Hindu Indian National Congress was established with the aim to gain national self-determination
• The congress consisted mostly of upper middle class Indians: lawyers, journalists, businessmen, and professors. The congress was widely ignored by the British, but it quickly gained popular support among Indians.
• the British partitioned the state of Bengal.

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• Rowlatt Acts
• rotests were especially fierce in the state of Punjab
• Around 400 people were killed, and another 1200 wounded received no medical attention.
• his massacre caused Mahatma Gandhi and other nationalist leaders to cease all cooperation with the British. The strategy for gaining independence was to boycott all British goods, schools, courts, and elections.
• Hindu and Muslim populations were taking separate paths.
• established a committee with the goal to resolve the conflict between the Congress and the Muslim League and to turn over authority for India to a single Indian administration.
• In 1947, the British Parliament passed an act establishing the Hindu majority country of India and the Muslim majority country of Pakistan. At midnight of August 14, 1947, these two countries became independant, ending British imperial rule of India.

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