Modern history

Concepts to cover

1. Canning as first Viceroy: Councils Act 1861, Indian Penal Code 1860, Indigo Commission, Wahabi trials under Elgin I
2. Lawrence: Orissa famine 1866, Bhutan war; Mayo: financial decentralisation 1870, Mayo College, first census 1872, assassinated at Port Blair 1872
3. Northbrook: Bihar famine, Baroda case; Lytton: Delhi Durbar 1877, Vernacular Press Act and Arms Act 1878, Statutory Civil Service 1879, Second Anglo-Afghan war, Strachey Famine Commission
4. Ripon: repeal of Vernacular Press Act 1882, local self-government resolution 1882, Hunter Commission 1882, Factory Act 1881, Ilbert Bill 1883
5. Dufferin: Congress founded 1885, Third Anglo-Burmese war 1885, Aitchison Commission; Lansdowne: Councils Act 1892, Age of Consent Act 1891, Factory Act 1891, Durand line 1893
6. Elgin II: famine 1896-97, plague, Lyall Famine Commission, Chapekar killing of Rand