Pre-Study: What to Study
8 Subtopics · 85 ConceptsCompany Rule Before 1773
Diwani After Buxar and the Deputy Diwans
Importance 3/5 What to StudyDual Government in Bengal (1765–72)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyThe Regulating Act of 1773
Significance of the Regulating Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyFeatures of the Regulating Act (Governor General and Council, Supreme Court, Bombay and Madras)
Importance 5/5 What to StudyAmendments of 1781
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPitt's India Act of 1784
Board of Control and the Dual System of Control
Importance 5/5 What to StudyOther Provisions of Pitt's India Act
Importance 4/5 What to StudyThe Act of 1786
Provisions of the Act of 1786
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Charter Act of 1793
Provisions of the Charter Act of 1793
Importance 3/5 What to StudyThe Charter Act of 1813
Background to the Charter Act of 1813
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEnd of the Trade Monopoly and the Crown's Sovereignty
Importance 4/5 What to StudyGrant for Education and Entry of Missionaries
Importance 5/5 What to StudyThe Charter Act of 1833
End of the Company's Remaining Trade and European Settlement
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCentralisation Under the Governor General
Importance 5/5 What to StudyLaw Member, Codification, Equal Employment and Slavery
Importance 4/5 What to StudyThe Charter Act of 1853
Open Competition and the Company's Position
Importance 4/5 What to StudySeparation of Legislative Functions and the Indian Legislative Council
Importance 5/5 What to StudyThe Act for Better Government of India 1858
Transfer to the Crown: Secretary of State, Council and Viceroy
Importance 5/5 What to StudyAssessment of the 1858 Act
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Indian Councils Act 1861
Advances Under the 1861 Act (Non-Officials, Portfolio System, Legislative Devolution)
Importance 5/5 What to StudyWeaknesses of the 1861 Legislative Councils
Importance 3/5 What to StudyIndian Councils Act 1892
Congress Demand for Council Reform
Importance 2/5 What to StudyFeatures of the 1892 Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyIndian Councils Act 1909
Features of the Morley-Minto Reforms
Importance 5/5 What to StudySeparate Electorates and Limits of the 1909 Act
Importance 5/5 What to StudyGovernment of India Act 1919
August 1917 Declaration and the Aim of the 1919 Act
Importance 4/5 What to StudyBicameral Central Legislature and Direct Election
Importance 4/5 What to StudyDyarchy in the Provinces and Separate Budgets
Importance 5/5 What to StudyExtension of Communal Representation
Importance 4/5 What to StudyHigh Commissioner for India and the Secretary of State's Pay
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLimitations of the 1919 Act
Importance 4/5 What to StudySimon Commission
Appointment and Recommendations of the Simon Commission
Importance 4/5 What to StudyFrom the Round Table Conferences to the 1935 Act
Importance 2/5 What to StudyGovernment of India Act 1935
All-India Federation and the Instrument of Accession
Importance 5/5 What to StudyFederal Executive and Legislature (Dyarchy at the Centre, Three Lists, Residuary Powers)
Importance 5/5 What to StudyProvincial Autonomy
Importance 5/5 What to StudyElectorates, Franchise, Federal Court and the India Council
Importance 4/5 What to StudyWorking and Evaluation of the 1935 Act
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Origin of the Term 'Civil Service'
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCornwallis' Role in Organising the Civil Services
Importance 4/5 What to StudyWellesley's Role: Fort William College and Haileybury
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCharter Act of 1853 and the Exclusion of Indians from High Posts
Importance 3/5 What to StudyIndian Civil Service Act of 1861 and the Age Limit
Importance 4/5 What to StudyStatutory Civil Service
Importance 3/5 What to StudyCongress Demands and the Aitchison Committee
Importance 4/5 What to StudyMontford Reforms and the Civil Services
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLee Commission (1924)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyPublic Service Commissions Under the 1935 Act
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEvaluation of Civil Services Under British Rule
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Policing Before the British Reforms (Faujdars, Kotwals, Zamindars)
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCornwallis' Police System (1791)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPolice Changes from 1808 to Bentinck
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPolice Commission (1860) and the Police Act 1861
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFrazer Commission (1902–03) and the CID
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPolice as an Agency of the Raj
Importance 2/5 What to Study
Queen's Army and the Company's Troops Before 1857
Importance 2/5 What to StudyReasons for Reorganising the Army After 1857
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEuropean Domination Over the Indian Branch
Importance 3/5 What to StudyBalance and Counterpoise and the 'Martial Races' Idea
Importance 3/5 What to StudyIsolating Soldiers and the Cost of the Army
Importance 2/5 What to Study
Pre-Colonial Justice and Mayor's Courts
Judicial System in Pre-Colonial India
Importance 2/5 What to StudyMayor's Courts (1726) and the Beginning of Common Law
Importance 3/5 What to StudyReforms Under Warren Hastings (1772–85)
District Diwani and Fauzdari Adalats and the Sadar Courts
Importance 4/5 What to StudySupreme Court at Calcutta
Importance 3/5 What to StudyReforms Under Cornwallis (1786–93)—Separation of Powers
Reorganisation of Courts and the Gradation of Civil Courts
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCornwallis Code
Importance 5/5 What to StudyReforms Under William Bentinck (1828–33)
Bentinck's Judicial Reforms
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLaw Commission and Codification of Laws
Importance 4/5 What to StudyLater Developments
Later Judicial Developments (1860, High Courts, Federal Court)
Importance 3/5 What to StudyEvaluation
Positive Aspects of Judiciary Under the British
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNegative Aspects of Judiciary Under the British
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Lessons of 1857 and Narrowing the Ruler–Subject Gap
Importance 3/5 What to StudyA New Stage of Colonialism
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Central Government
Effects of Secretary of State Control After 1858
Importance 3/5 What to StudyViceroy's Councils Under the 1861 Act and Ordinance Power
Importance 3/5 What to StudyProvincial Government
Presidencies and Other Provinces
Importance 2/5 What to StudyFinancial Decentralisation: 1870, 1877 and 1882
Importance 4/5 What to StudyLocal Bodies
Factors Behind Local Bodies
Importance 3/5 What to StudyFirst Local Bodies (1864–68) and Mayo's Resolution of 1870
Importance 4/5 What to StudyRipon's Resolution of 1882
Importance 5/5 What to StudyDrawbacks of Local Bodies After Ripon
Importance 3/5 What to StudyRoyal Commission on Decentralisation (1908)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyResolutions of 1915 and May 1918
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLocal Self-Government Under Dyarchy
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLocal Bodies Under the 1935 Act and After
Importance 2/5 What to Study