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1
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What was the impact of ‘every’ reform from the East India Company?

A

Dispossessed, demoted or degraded one class of Indian people or another

2
Q

What was the new system of higher education based on?

A

English language, literature and science

3
Q

What new system was based on the English language, literature and science?

A

Higher education

4
Q

Through introducing English literature, language and science into higher education, who did this undermine?

A

Challenged and superseding (undermining the status) of the old Muslim elite

5
Q

What was a British concept of law?

A

Placing equality before law

6
Q

Who had a concept that placed equality before law?

A

British

7
Q

How did the Indians feel about the British concept of equality before law?

A

Insulted the honour of the high castes. “When sued by a mean labourer, or male or female servant, you are summoned without investigation to attend their Court, and are thus dishonoured and degraded”

8
Q

What British concept offended the high castes Indians?

A

Placing equality before law

9
Q

What did free trade ruin?

A

Urban artisan class

10
Q

What ruined the urban artisan class?

A

Free trade

11
Q

Where was Indian resentment for the British the greatest?

A

Inside the countryside

12
Q

What did the British do within the country side to increase efficiency and profit?

A

New order of land that has never existed before
Individual land ownerships
Money rents
Free market

13
Q

Where were policies like individual land ownership, money rents and free markets introduced?

A

In the countryside

14
Q

Why did the British introduce a new order of land in the countryside?

A

Increase efficiency and profit

15
Q

What was the impact of the British changing the order the countryside?

A

Pattern of rural life was breaking up
Families were forced to abandon land their families had worked for generations
Thousands of farmers were unable to pay government taxes and fell into debt

16
Q

What was the impact of the British standardising the system for collecting land revenue?

A

Made it easier to evict those with “revenue rights”, who defaulted on payment, widened and deepened the reservoir of rebellion

17
Q

What was “revenue rights”?

A

the right to levy a revenue on behalf of the state and pass a proportion to the government’s collectors

18
Q

What was the right to levy a revenue on behalf of the state and pass a proportion to the government’s collectors

A

“Revenue rights”

19
Q

What happened in January 1856?

A

Madras native Association challenged and petitioned against the torture used by the British but was dismissed

20
Q

When had the Madras native Association challenged and petitioned against the torture used by the British but was dismissed?

A

January 1856

21
Q

Who challenged and petitioned against the torture used by the British but was dismissed in January 1856?

A

Madras native Association

22
Q

After British intervention, how often were land tax demanded?

A

Quarterly instalments

23
Q

After British intervention, what was demanded in quarterly instalments?

A

Land Tax

24
Q

What was the impact of demanding land tax in quarterly instalments?

A

Farmers would be in debt, as they would have to pay rent before they have actually made profit from food production

25
Q

What is the Marxist view of the rebellion?

A

Blames economic exploitation, as he believed that capitalism only continued if they took materials and therefore imperialism was a byproduct.