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British rule in India had been shaken to its foundation by the Sepoy Mutiny / Indian Rebellion of 1857. But the British were determined to learn from that bitter experience. In the Mutiny aftermath, there was a transformation in the way they ruled India.

The East India Company was finally wound up, ending the anomaly whereby a corporation had governed a subcontinent. Admittedly, some of the changes were merely a matter of labeling. The old Governor-General became the new Viceroy, and there were only minor changes to the structure of the six-member Cabinet which advised him. In theory, ultimate authority now rested with the Secretary of State for India in London, advised by his Indian Council (a combination of the Old Court of Directors & Board Control).

But the assumption was that 'the government of India must be, on the whole, carried out in India itself'. And in her proclamation of November 1858 the Queen gave her Indian subjects two assurance about how this government would be conducted. The first we know already : there would be no further meddling with traditional Indian religious culture, an implicit recognition of one of the principal cause of the Mutiny. But the proclamation also referred to 'the principle that perfect equality was to exist, so far all appointments were concerned between Europeans & Natives' (p.178). Source : Empire, by Niall Ferguson.

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