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Florida Atlantic Undergraduate Research Journal

College

Dorothy F Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny and the perceived failures of the British East India Company, the British Parliament passed the 1858 Government of India Act, which liquidated the Company and placed India under direct rule by the Crown. The historiography on the Company’s end and the Raj’s beginning has not given adequate attention to the Act itself, portraying it as an uncontroversial measure used to change India’s governing body. This article addresses the controversial nature of the Act. By examining geographically and politically dispersed newspaper articles from when the Act was being considered in Parliament, this research shows that the 1858 Government of India Act was contested, and there was no uniform reaction to the Act’s introduction or passage through Parliament.

Advisors

Douglas Kanter

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