Short Notes - East India Company
Category : UPSC
East India Company
Governors of Bengal and Governor Generals of India
Name and Tenure |
Well Known For |
War fought |
Robert Clive (1758-60) and(1765-67) |
• Diarchy of Dual Goverment of Bengal from 1765-72 • Considered as one of the creators of British power in India. |
• Battle of Plassey (1757) • Battle of Condore [1758)
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Henry Vansittart (1760-65) |
• Deposed Mir Jafar, the Nawab of Bengal,and replaced him with his son-in-law Mir Qasim. |
• Battle of Buxar |
Harry Verelst 1767-69 |
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John Cartier (1769-1772) |
• The Great Famine of Bengal 1770 occured in his regime which claimed about two million lives
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Warren Hastings (1772-85) |
• Founding Asiatic Society of Bengal • Auctioning the right to collect land revenue to its highest bid
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Lord Cornwallis (1786-93) |
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· 3rd Anglo-Mysore War against Tipu Sultan and signed the treaty of Srirangapatnam in 1792
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Sir John Shore (1793-98) |
• 1st Charter of Act in 1793 |
Nizam and Marathas in 1793 |
Lord Wellesley (1798-1805) |
• Started subsidiary alliance to achieve British dominancy over India • Forming Madras Presidency |
• Treaty of Bassein in 1802 • 2nd Anglo-Maratha war from 1803-1805 defeating Scindia, Bhonsle and Holkar |
Sir George Barlow (1805-1807) |
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Lord Minto (1807-1813) |
• Concluding Treaty of Amritsar with Raja Ranjit Singh
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Lord Hastings (1813-1823) |
• Forceful implementation humiliating treaties or Peshwas and Scindias.
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Lord Amherst (1823-28) |
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• First Burmese War ( 1824-26) |
Lord William Bentinck ( 1828-35) |
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Sir Charles Metcaife (1834-36)
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• Passed the famous Press Law which liberated the press in India |
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Lord Auckland (1836-42) |
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• 1st Anglo Afgan war (1836-42) |
Lord Ellen borough (1842-44) |
• Brought an end to Afgan war Annexed Sindh in 1843 |
• War with Gwalior (1843) |
Lord Hardinge (1844-48) |
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• 1st Anglo Sikh war (1845-46) |
Lord Dalhousie (1848-56) |
• Abolished titles and pensions
• Introduced "Doctrine of Lapse"
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(1848-49)
1852
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Rule of the British Governors and Governor Generals
First railway line was laid from Bombay to Thane, in 1853.
establishment of universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, revolt of 1857.
Amritsar, Delhi, etc.
Conference, 1932.
August 16,1946, Attlee's Declaration,
Some Important rulers in India (1720-1949)
Ruler |
Period |
Place |
1. Sadat Khan Burhan-ul-mulk |
1722-39 |
Awadh |
2. SafdarJung |
1739-54 |
Awadh |
3.Shuj'a-ud- daulah |
1754-75 |
Awadh |
4. Asaf-ud-daulah |
1775-97 |
Awadh |
5. WazirAli |
1797-98 |
Awadh |
6. Nizam-ul-Mulk AsafJah |
1724-48 |
Hyderabad |
7. NasirJung |
1748-50 |
Hyderabad |
8. MuzaffarJung |
1750-51 |
Hyderabad |
9. SalabatJung |
l751-60 |
Hyderabad |
10. Nizam All |
1760-1803 |
Hyderabad |
11. SikandarJah |
1803-29 |
Hyderabad |
12.Nasir-ud- daulah |
1829-57 |
Hyderabad |
13. Afjal-ud- daulah |
1857-69 |
Hyderabad |
14.MahabatAli Khan |
1869-1911 |
Hyderabad |
15.Osman Ali Khan |
1911-49 |
Hyderabad |
16. HyderAli |
1761-82 |
Mysore |
17. Tipu Sultan |
1782-99 |
Mysore |
18. Ranjit Singh |
1792-1839 |
Punjab |
Some important Nawabs of Bengal (1717-1772)
Nawabs |
Period |
1. Murshid QuIi Khan |
1717-27 |
2. Suf-ud-din |
1727-39 |
3. Sarfraz Khan |
1739-40 |
4. Alivardi Khan |
1740-56 |
5. Siraj-ud-daulah |
1756-57 |
7.MirQasim |
1760-63 |
8. Mir Jafar |
1763-65 |
9. Najm-ud daulah |
1765-72 |
Tribal Revolts
Tribe |
Year |
Leaders |
Cause |
Chuar |
1766-72 |
Raja Jagannath |
Excess Revenue demand, Bengal famine |
Bhils |
1817 |
Sewaram |
Agrarian hardship |
Hos |
1820 |
??.. |
British occupation of Singhbhum |
Ramosi |
1822 |
Chittur Singh, Pratap singh, Dattaraya PAtkar |
British Rule |
Kolis |
1824 |
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Dismantle of forestsI |
Ahorn |
1828-33 |
Gomadhar Kunwar |
British occupation |
Khasi |
1829-32 |
Tiruth Singh |
British occupation |
Kol |
1831-32 |
Buddha Bhagat |
Land transfer to outsiders |
Santhals |
1855-56 |
Sidhu and kanhu |
British Rule |
Naikda |
1858 |
Rup Singh |
For Dharma Raj against ban joria Bhagat on grazing and timber |
Bhuyan and Junag |
1867-68 1891 |
Ratna Nayak |
Installation of British protege on throne |
Kacha Nagas |
1882 |
Sambhuden |
British intervention |
Munda (Ulgulan) |
1899 |
Birsa Munda |
Land system, Missionary activity and forced labour |
Bhils |
1913 |
Govind Guru |
A temperance and purification movement |
Oraons (Tana Bhagat) |
1914 |
Jatra Bhagat and other Bhagats |
Religious Reason |
Chenchus |
1921-22 |
??. |
British control of forests |
Koyas/ Rampas |
1922-24 |
Alluri Sitaram Raju |
British Rule |
Naga |
1932 |
Jadunang ( 1905-31) and Rani Gaidinliu |
A reformist movement later directed and Rani Gaidinliu against excess of British rule. |
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