Duties and Responsibilities of st George Realtors

The term has also been used to refer to the “British in India”. The terms “Indian Empire” and “Empire of India” (like the term “British Empire”) were not used in legislation. Suzerainty over 175 princely states, some of the largest and most important, was exercised (in the name of the British Crown) by the central government of British India under the viceroy; the remaining approximately 500 states were dependents of the provincial governments of British India under a governor, lieutenant-governor, or chief commissioner (as the case might have been). The monarch was officially known as Empress or Emperor of India and the term was often used in Queen Victoria’s Queen’s Speeches and Prorogation Speeches.

Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, one of the principal leaders of the Great Uprising of 1857 who had lost her kingdom by the Doctrine of Lapse. Although the Indian Rebellion of 1857 had shaken the British enterprise in India, it had not derailed it. A 1887 souvenir portrait of Queen Victoria as Empress of India, 30 years after the Great Uprising. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan founder of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, wrote one of the early critiques, The Causes of the Indian Mutiny.

Indeed some kind of chart might be drawn up to indicate the close connection between length of British rule and progressive growth of poverty. Historians continue to debate whether the long-term intention of British rule was to accelerate the economic development of India, or to distort and delay it. In 1780, the conservative British politician Edmund Burke raised the issue of India’s position: he vehemently attacked the East India Company, claiming that Warren Hastings and other top officials had ruined the Indian economy and society.

66,000 p.a. (£4,950 p.a.). The viceroy was the head of the Council of State, while the Legislative Assembly, which was first opened in 1921, was headed by an elected president (appointed by the Viceroy from 1921 to 1925). The Council of State consisted of 58 members (32 elected, 26 nominated), while the Legislative Assembly comprised 141 members (26 nominated officials, 13 others nominated and 102 elected). The viceroy and governor-general was also the head of the bicameral Indian Legislature, consisting of an upper house (the Council of State) and a lower house (the Legislative Assembly). Each department was headed by a secretary excepting the Railway Department, which was headed by a Chief Commissioner of Railways under a secretary. Until 1946, the viceroy held the portfolio for External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, as well as heading the Political Department in his capacity as the Crown representative.

The new Act also made it easier for Indians to be admitted into the civil services and the army officer corps. In particular, rural candidates, generally sympathetic to British rule and less confrontational, were assigned more seats than their urban counterparts. In the provincial legislatures, the British continued to exercise some control by setting aside seats for special interests they considered cooperative or useful. A greater number of Indians were now enfranchised, although, for voting at the national level, they constituted only 10% of the total adult male population, many of whom were still illiterate. Seats were also reserved for non-Brahmins, landowners, businessmen, and college graduates. The principal of “communal representation”, an integral part of the Minto-Morley Reforms, and more recently of the Congress-Muslim League Lucknow Pact, was reaffirmed, with seats being reserved for Muslims, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians, and domiciled Europeans, in both provincial and Imperial legislative councils.