History Notes | B.A. LL.B. (Five Year Course) Semester 2 | Mumbai University | munotes

Contents

Module I Administration of East Indian Company and the Revolt of 1857

1. History: What This Paper Covers, and How to Read This Book 1
2. From Traders to Rulers: The East India Company to 1772 7
3. The Regulating Act 1773 15
4. The Regulating Act at Work, and the Act of Settlement 1781 25
5. Pitt's India Act 1784 33
6. The Charter Act of 1793 44
7. The Charter Act of 1813 57
8. The Charter Act of 1833 67
9. The Charter Act of 1853, and the Act of 1854 81
10. The Charter Acts from 1773 to 1853 Taken Together 92
11. Causes of the Revolt of 1857: Political 100
12. Causes of the Revolt of 1857: Economic 109
13. Causes of the Revolt of 1857: Social and Religious 116
14. Causes of the Revolt of 1857: Military 122
15. The Immediate Cause: The Greased Cartridges, Barrackpore and Meerut 129
16. What Contemporaries Said Caused the Revolt: Syed Ahmad Khan and Others 136
17. The Course of the Revolt, 1857 to 1859: Centres and Leaders 143
18. Why the Revolt Failed 150
19. Mutiny, Revolt or War of Independence? The Nature of 1857 156
20. The Consequences of the Revolt: An Overview 164
21. The Act for the Better Government of India 1858: The Secretary of State and the Council of India 169
22. The Act for the Better Government of India 1858: Services, Revenues and Parliament 177
23. The Queen's Proclamation of 1 November 1858 185
24. After the Revolt: The Army, the Princes and British Policy 191
25. The Indian Councils Act 1861: The Governor-General's Council 198
26. The Indian Councils Act 1861: Law-Making at the Centre and in the Provinces 205
27. The 1861 Act at Work, the Amending Acts, and Why There Is No Act of 1891 213

Module II Major developments in India and Social Reform

1. Education in India Before 1813 219
2. The Charter Act of 1813 and Education 228
3. Orientalists and Anglicists 235
4. Macaulay's Minute of 1835 243
5. Wood's Despatch of 1854 251
6. The Hunter Education Commission 1882 260
7. The Indian Universities Act 1904 275
8. The Press Under the Company 291
9. The Press Under the Crown 303
10. The Press in Social Reform and the Freedom Struggle 314
11. Local Self-Government 330
12. The Civil Services Under the Company 341
13. The Civil Services Under the Crown 349
14. Social Reform in Nineteenth Century India 360
15. Reform Movements: the Brahmo Samaj, the Arya Samaj and the Ramakrishna Mission 368
16. Reform Movements: Western India and the Aligarh Movement 378
17. The Emancipation of Women: Sati and Widow Remarriage 389
18. The Emancipation of Women: Child Marriage, the Age of Consent and Education 400
19. The Upliftment of the Depressed Classes 415
20. Ambedkar, Gandhi and the Poona Pact 429

Module III Freedom Struggle and Constitutional Developments (1885-1935)

1. The Rise of Indian Nationalism 439
2. The Indian National Congress, 1885 447
3. The Work of the Moderates, 1885 to 1905 455
4. The Indian Councils Act 1892 462
5. The Rise of the Extremists 469
6. The Partition of Bengal, 1905, and the Swadeshi Movement 479
7. The Surat Split, 1907 488
8. The Indian Councils Act 1909 496
9. The August Declaration 1917 507
10. The Montagu-Chelmsford Report 1918 516
11. The Government of India Act 1919: The Provinces and Dyarchy 525
12. The Government of India Act 1919: The Centre, London and the Services 535
13. The Rowlatt Act and the Jallianwala Bagh 545
14. The Non-Cooperation Movement, 1920 to 1922 554
15. The Simon Commission 1927 564
16. The Nehru Report 1928 571
17. The Round Table Conferences 584
18. The Civil Disobedience Movement 595
19. The Government of India Act 1935: The Federation and the Centre 607
20. The Government of India Act 1935: Provincial Autonomy 628
21. Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905 to 1935 642

Module IV Partition and Post-Independence India

1. The Cripps Mission 1942 655
2. Quit India and the Road to 1946 664
3. The Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 674
4. The Indian Independence Act 1947 683
5. The Genesis and Growth of Communalism 694
6. The Partition of India 703
7. The Integration of the Indian States 712
8. The Kashmir Issue 722
9. The Constituent Assembly 730
10. The Constituent Assembly Debates 737
11. States Reorganisation 747
12. Economic Planning and the Five Year Plans of the Nehru Era 753
13. The Mixed Economy 760
14. Land Reforms: Zamindari Abolition and Tenancy Reforms 766
15. Land Reforms: Ceilings and the Bhoodan Movement 774