India

Question 1

Economic

Answer 1

In 1842 Charles James Napier who was a Scottish soldier conquered the province of Sindh and created a police force and economically developed the province

Question 2

Indian Practices

Answer 2

Lord Dalhousie banned the practices of Suttee (a widow would throw herself (voluntarily or forced) on the funeral pyre of her husband) and Thuggee (an organised cult of killers who often targeted tourists)

Question 3

Penal code

Answer 3

Thomas Babington created India’s Penal Code which he based on Britains

Question 4

Tea

Answer 4

Thomas Lipton was a Glasgow businessman who set up a tea business using Indian grown tea and helped India overtake China as the worlds largest tea distributor

Question 5

Business

Answer 5

The East India Company was started to support trade between Britain and India but grew so powerful it eventually ruled parts of India

Question 6

University

Answer 6

Rev. Alexander Duff helped to found the University of Calcutta and helped to set up schools for girls

Question 7

Railways

Answer 7

Lord Dalhousie planned a railway to connect the main regions and the telegraph system

Question 8

Mutiny

Answer 8

During the Mutiny Scottish soldiers captured Indian soldiers and civilians and made them lick up the blood of those that they’d killed Sir Colin Campbell came in and put a stop to this however he then captured Muslim and Hindu soldiers who he humiliated and then executed