Industrial Age · South Asia · Politics

1858

Government of India Act

August 2, 1858

Parliament abolished the East India Company - a trading corporation that had somehow come to govern a subcontinent - and transferred its powers to the Crown. A Secretary of State for India was created. Victoria issued a proclamation promising religious toleration. The British Raj, in its classical form, had just been born.

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Before and after in South Asia

Before: September 15, 1857: Recapture of Delhi
After: May 13, 1876: Queen Victoria Empress of India

Before and after in Politics

Before: March 6, 1857: Dred Scott Decision
After: October 16, 1859: John Brown's Raid

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Government of India Act 1858