 | James Talboys Wheeler - British - 1886 - 338 pages
...prepared the way for that .great measure which will be told in a future chapter, namely, the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the British Crown. § 16. Lord Canning succeeded Lord Dalhousie in Lord 1856. To all outward appearance... | |
 | Graf Karl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1887 - 450 pages
...adjournment from the previous December, on February 4. The question of chief interest, the transfer of the Government of India from the East India Company to the Crown, seemed likely at first to be solved in a surprisingly favourable way for the Ministry. Although the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - Great Britain - 1887 - 624 pages
...clearness in a series of official documents of much value. The Act of Parliament which transferred the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown provided (21 & 22 Viet. c. 106, s. 53) that the Secretary of State in Council should lay before Parliament... | |
 | Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland - Great Britain - 1888 - 356 pages
...the threats of certain French colonels and others. ] Lord Palmerston introduces a bill transferring the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown. Feb. Lord Palmerston's Conspiracy to Murder Bill (relating to Orsini's late attempt on the Emperor),... | |
 | Oscar Browning - Great Britain - 1889 - 100 pages
...a severe lesson from the shock of this calamity. Among its principal effects were the transference of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown, and the awakening of Englishmen to a deeper interest in Indian affairs. BOOK VII. THE NEW REFORM BILL.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 206 pages
...rebele was also in many cases most shocKing. The most Important result of the mutiny was the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the direct authority of the British crown. NOMINATION OP PBESIDENT LINCOLN. McCDNE. Kan. 1. Who nominated... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - India - 1890 - 332 pages
...trampled out of the land, and th'j proclamation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria announced the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown of Great Britain. 1 Tlie defeat of Windham was severely criticised at the time. During the following night Major Adye,... | |
 | Manjiro Inagaki - Eastern question (Balkan). - 1890 - 298 pages
...which she was trying to consolidate more firmly. The Indian Mutiny of 1857 had led to the transferring of the Government of India from the East India Company to the Crown, and the reins of government from a GovernorGeneral to a Viceroy (1858). The tour of the Prince of Wales... | |
 | Henry Stewart Cunningham, Sir - 1891 - 242 pages
...discussed. It was, however, apparent that the main weight of Parliamentary opinion inclined to a transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown. The Company was too powerful a corporation to resign its powers and dignities without a struggle. Earl... | |
 | Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham - India - 1891 - 256 pages
...attracting attention in England. In January, 1858, Lord Palmerston had introduced a Bill transferring the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown. The measure was one which, though not so intrinsically important as its form suggested, was grave enough... | |
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Mill, were undertaken by him some four years after his retirement from official life, in consequence of the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company... 
