Unit-3 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Carnatic wars(dates, reasons)
1st: 1740-48(Austrian war of succession)
2nd: 1749-54(Nasir jung vs Muzaffar jung in Hyd, Anwaruddin vs Chanda Sahib in Carnatic)
3rd: 1758-63(seven yrs’ war)
Carnatic treaties
Aix la Chapelle(1748)
Pondicherry(1754)
Paris(1763)
Anglo-Mysore wars(dates, treaties)
1st: 1767-69(Tr. of Madras)
2nd: 1780-84(Tr. of Mangalore)
3rd: 1790-92(Tr. of Seringapatnam)
4th: 1798-99
Anglo-Maratha wars(dates)
1st: 1775-82
2nd: 1803-05
3rd: 1817-19
Stakeholders of 1st Anglo-Maratha and treaty
Madhav Rao I dies
Madhav Rao II (small boy) supported by Nobles
British want Salsette & Bassein
Raghunath Rao wants to be Peshwa
Treaty of Salbai(1782)
Reason for 2nd Anglo-Maratha
Signing of Treaty of Bassein(subsidiary alliance)1802 by Peshwa Baji Rao II
Others viz Scindias, Holkars etc infuriated
Anglo-Sikh wars(dates, treaty)
1st: 1845-46(ended with treaty of Lahore in 1846)
2nd: 1848-49(Annexation of Punjab in 1849)
Ranjith Singh(treaty, death yr)
Treaty of Amritsar in 1809 with EIC
Died in 1839
Eco impact of Brit rule
Traditional systems disrupted(eg)
Balutedari sys in MH: village artisans received crop shares for their services(~barter)
Eco impact of Brit rule
Impact on forest cover
- Reduced form 40% to 20% during colonial rule
- Between 1880 and 1920, 13.3 mn hectares of forest converted to cultivated land.
Eco impact of Brit rule
Brit trading firms in Ind(2)
Jardine Matheson
Balmer Lawrie
Eco impact of Brit rule
Drain of wealth stat
Bw 1857 & 1947, 9.2 billion pounds(economist Angus Maddison)
Eco impact of Brit rule
Cotton export ^(fact)
1.3mn in 1813 to
13.9mn in 1850(in pounds)
Eco impact of Brit rule
Deindustrialization
In 1750:India produced 25% of world’s textiles
By 1900:It was importing 70% of its cotton goods from Britain
Eco impact of Brit rule
Limited industrialization to serve Brit interests
By 1901, estd 36 jute mills in Bengal to process raw jute for Brit industries
Eco impact of Brit rule
Devt of modern industry eg
1st cotton textile mill in Bombay by Jamsetji Tata in 1854
Eco impact of Brit rule
Rupee as uniform currency across Brit India
Indian Coinage act of 1835
% of land & places under zamindari, ryotwari, mahalwari
19%(Bengal, Bihar, Odisa, Benaras, N.Madras)
52%(Madras, Bombay)
29%(Punjab, Central India)
zamindari, ryotwari, mahalwari introduced by
Cornwallis
Thomas Munro, Alexander Reed
Holt Mackenzie, Martin Bird
Social mobility due to
Zamindari
Ryotwari
Mahalwari
Tagore family in Bengal
Maratha Kunbis in MH
Lambardars in Punjab
Battle of Plassey main consequence
EIC got zamindari rts of 24 parganas & took over french settlements in Bengal
Railways
Administrative integration
Punjab Mail connected Lahore to Delhi(administering Punjab region)
Railways
Resource exploitation
Bengal Nagpur railway(coal transportation from Jharia coalfields)
Railways
Strategic defence
NorthWestern State Railway(NWSR-agst potential threats from Afg, Russia)