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The British government took over direct rule, replacing the Company’s administrative apparatus with an Indian Civil Service (which became the Indian Administrative Service after independence). In 1877, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India, a symbolic exclamation point.
Summary. The origin of British India can be traced to warfare in 18th-century Europe and India, trade-related conflicts and disputes, and the East India Company’s business model. The state that emerged from these roots survived by reforming the institutions of capitalism, military strategy, and political strategy.
Mar 28, 2008 · The East India Company's rule widely came to be seen as a dismal failure long before the Great Rebellion of 1857 blew up its foundations. This chapter demonstrates how the British maintained their fragile dominance over the subcontinent in the early years of the nineteenth century before considering this economic impasse and the attempts of ...
- C. A. Bayly
- 1988
How did the East India Company take control of India? Initially English traders were welcomed by the Mughal rulers. Both sides realised that there would be benefits for each of them if they...
Oct 15, 2023 · Due to nationalist pressure, there was a sluggish process of Indianization after 1918, but crucial and senior jobs were still held by Europeans. The future of modern India was greatly influenced by changes in India’s governmental structure and policies.
Oct 1, 2021 · This chapter examines the English East India Company’s (EIC’s) rise to dominance in South Asia from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. The EIC followed Asian precedents by forging its empire through reliance on strategies of define and conquer and define and rule.
The East India Company ruled India until the company was dissolved in 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Government of India Act 1858, the India Office of the British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new British Raj.
