Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the steps of the transfer of authority in India.
- The East India Company governs through conquest, alliance and revenue collection
- Rebellion breaks out across northern India in 1857
- The Company is abolished and the Crown assumes direct rule
- The rebellion is suppressed with great violence
- Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India
Hints
- The sequence runs from company rule to imperial title.
- Direct Crown rule begins in 1858 and the imperial title follows in 1877.
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- The East India Company governs through conquest, alliance and revenue collection
- Rebellion breaks out across northern India in 1857
- The rebellion is suppressed with great violence
- The Company is abolished and the Crown assumes direct rule
- Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India
Why
The rebellion produced the empire in its familiar form. What preceded it was a chartered trading company that had acquired a subcontinent almost inadvertently; what followed was a formal imperial administration with a viceroy, a civil service and, eventually, a monarch styled empress, a structure created by the failure of the previous one.
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