India

Question 1

What were 3 triggers of the Indian mutiny?

Answer 1

New cartridges, Doctrine of Lapse, crossing the sea

Question 2

What was the Ilbert Bill and when was it introduced?

Answer 2

A failed bill to allow Indian magistrates to try Europeans. It was introduced in 1883

Question 3

When was the INC founded?

Answer 3

1885

Question 4

When was the Universities Act passed and what was it?

Answer 4

1904- it restricted the growth of private colleges and included more centrally nominated figures on governing boards

Question 5

When was Bengal partitioned and by whom?

Answer 5

1905 by Viceroy Curzon

Question 6

When were the Morley Minto Reforms introduced

Answer 6

1909

Question 7

Who said “reforms may not save the Raj but if they don’t nothing else will”

Answer 7

Morley writing to Minto

Question 8

Who was Viceroy, Morley or Minto

Answer 8

Minto was Viceroy, Morley was Secretary of State for India

Question 9

When was Bengal reunified and by whom?

Answer 9

1911 by Viceroy Hardinge

Question 10

When did the Great Game end?

Answer 10

1907- after the Russo-Japanese War

Question 11

Who was Gokhale?

Answer 11

A moderate Indian nationalist who advocated working with the British to get political representation and eventually self government

Question 12

Who was Tilak?

Answer 12

An extreme Indian nationalist who advocated protest, agitation and swadesh (boycott). He also re-energised a Hindu festival and used it to make anti-British speeches using Hindu analogies

Question 13

Why was Bengal partitioned?

Answer 13

To make India’s largest and most popular province easier to govern
To weaken the INC as Calcutta had become the main base for intellectuals in India
Policy of divide and conquer- split Muslims and Hindus

Question 14

When was Curzon Wyllie assassinated?

Answer 14

July 1909

Question 15

When were British troops sent to Tibet?

Answer 15

1904- they massacred monks and found no evidence of Russian involvement

Question 16

When was the Bengal Famine and how many died?

Answer 16

1899-1900. Approximately 1 million people died

Question 17

What did Curzon do throughout the famine?

Answer 17

He spent large sums of money rebuilding the Taj Mahal and implemented limited relief measures

Question 18

When did Britain invade Burma?

Answer 18

1885

Question 19

What was the Great Game?

Answer 19

Britain were worried that Russia, who was expanding throughout Europe, would try and invade India, which was entirely false but the two countries still had a period of heightened tension and suspicion. Britain were especially worried about Afghanistan being used as a route and attempted to invade it.

Question 20

When was the Opium War?

Answer 20

1856-60. Britain received Hong Kong after winning and legalised opium in China

Question 21

What was the 1909 Indian Councils Act

Answer 21

The Morley-Minto Reforms

Question 22

What was the 1910 Press Act

Answer 22

A broad act that outlawed exciting any contempt or hatred of the government in order to silence anti-colonial journalists

Question 23

Who were the main opposition to the Ilbert Bill

Answer 23

Unofficial Europeans who were the lowest in European hierarchy but had a strong sense of solidarity and felt they were above Indians. There were 29,000 of them

Question 24

Main argument against the Ilbert Bill?

Answer 24

Concerns that this new power would be abused and that European women would be raped

Question 25

4 categories to use in concession v repression essay?

Answer 25

Politically (C- Morley-Minto Reforms), legally (R- Ilbert Bill + Press Act), dealing with nationalism (C- MM Reforms, unification of Bengal), general attitudes to Indians (R- legacy of distrust after the mutiny, Universities Act)

Question 26

Staple goods in India?

Answer 26

Indigo, tea, opium, spices, textiles

Question 27

What was the Governor of India Act?

Answer 27

An act reversing the Doctrine of Lapse

Question 28

What was the ratio of British to Indian troops after the Mutiny?

Answer 28

1:3

Question 29

How many miles of telegraph were built by 1880?

Answer 29

20,000

Question 30

How many miles of railway were built by 1869 and why?

Answer 30

Over 5,000- done to increase transport speeds so another mutiny could be crushed more easily

Question 31

What were Taluqdars?

Answer 31

Large Indian landlords who Britain used as a pillar of the Empire?

Question 32

How much did coffee production increase by 1877?

Answer 32

Ten fold

Question 33

How many cotton mills were in Bombay by 1900?

Answer 33

Over 200

Question 34

Why was the Indigo Commission set up?

Answer 34

To investigate peasants demands after the 1859 Blue Mutiny

Question 35

What were civil lines?

Answer 35

Towns built specifically for British officials so they wouldn’t have to live with Indians. They were designed to have wide streets that could easily be patrolled to put down unrest in the case of another Mutiny