Company administration and colonial economy
Civil service, police, army and courts under the Company
Concepts to cover
- Cornwallis code 1793: separation of revenue and justice, Europeanised covenanted service, Haileybury 1806
- Cornwallis's thana and daroga system; Bentinck's superintendents; Police Commission 1860 and Police Act 1861
- Warren Hastings's adalats, Sadar Diwani and Nizamat Adalats, Supreme Court 1774, Macaulay's Indian Penal Code 1860 and Civil Procedure codes
- Company's presidency armies, sepoy recruitment, General Service Enlistment Act 1856 and pre-1857 mutinies (Vellore 1806, Barrackpore 1824)
- Selective colonial modernisation: imperial governance and economic priorities, racial exclusion and restricted social reform