HISTORY

INDEPENDENCE AFTER THE GREAT REBELLION

THE GREAT REBELLION

1857

THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION

1858

POLITICAL AGENTS OR RESIDENT

SET IN EVERY PRINCELY KINGDOMS

The Indian Council of Historical Research published a Five Volume Dictionary of Martyrs

Listing 14000 Heroes and Heroines

VICEROY OR GOVERNOR GENERAL

The Queen’s Representative in India

Secretary of State for india

Based in London

Martyr

A person who is killed or tortured for his or her beliefs

Promises of the Royal Proclamation

1. 560 Indian princes would continue to rule their own states, but under British supremacy, or ‘paramountcy’ as it was called.

2. The proclamation also assured the ‘natives of our Indian territories’ that they would be taken care of just like ‘all our other subjects’.

3. There would be no attempt to impose Christianity on any of them.

1878, the Arms Act

Which prohibited Indians from keeping arms, but allowed the British to do so.

1878, the Venaculer Press Act

Which regulated and censored the Indian language press.