One of the famous trio- Lal, Bal and Pal. B.C.Pal is popularly known as the father of revolutionary thought in India. He started his political career by joining the INC in 1886 and published ‘Paridarsak’, a weekly, and later worked as an assistant editor of the Bengal Public Opinion and The Tribune. Pal was a […]
Read More »Introduction Allan Octavian Hume (A.O.Hume), a restricted British member of Indian Civil Service who had settled at Simla, founded the Indian National Union, the forerunner of Indian Nation Congress in 1884. After touring Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, Hume announced that a conference of the Indian Nationl Union would be held at Pune in December, which […]
Read More »Perhaps no other Governor General excited such bitter in the minds of the people as Curzon did. He was the undisguised embodiment of the British imperial attitude towards India. When he took over the viceroyalty, India was already passing through a serious crisis. The great famine of 1896-98 was followed by the bubonic plague and […]
Read More »When Ripon was appointed viceroy in India, the liberal party under Gladstone had come to power in England and it wanted to make the British rule in India “profitable to natives” thus under Ripon a liberal policy was tried to undo most of the reactionary and unpopular measures of Lytton. Repeal of Vernacular Press Act […]
Read More »He was a nominee of the conservative government of Benjamin Disraeli. He was very reactionary and repressive in Indian affairs passed the Vernacular Press Act, Arms Act etc. The Royal Rules Act 1876 and great famine of 1876-78. The British passed the royal titles act, investing Queen Victoria with the title Of Kaisf-I-Hind or […]
Read More »Lord Canning’s rule was a very eventful period. It witnessed radical changes in the British administrative policies in India. After the suppression of the revolt of 1857 the act of 1858 was passed, which laid down that “India shall be governed by and in the name of the (British) sovereign through one of the principal […]
Read More »Result of Revolt of 1857 The revolt of 1857 was the first great and direct threat to British rule in India. The result of the revolt was the leaders and soldiers paid with their lives. Their liberty and their property were forfeited as the penalty of failure. The victorious English troops committed inhuman atrocities upon […]
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