1. Prologue
  2. HFS3/P1: British India: Education and Sociocultural Policy
  3. HFS3/P2: British India: Vernacular Press & Freedom of Speech
  4. HFS3/P3: British India: Rise of Civil services
  5. HFS3/P4: British India: Land Revenue System-Zamindari
  6. HFS3/P5: British India: Land Revenue system-Ryotiwari

Prologue

  • So far in his history-freedom struggle lecture series, Mr.Pratik Nayak covered the entry and establishment of the British in India.
  • Now the topic progresses further to how the British established their colonial rule over India through various treaties and acts.
  • Powerpoints available @Mrunal.org/download

HFS3/P1: British India: Education and Sociocultural Policy

HFSP1-British-Education

  • Occidental and Orientalist approach- their faces, development and consequences in India
  • implications of the social cultural policies of Lord Wellesley, Lord William Bentinck, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Hardinge, Lord Dalhousie
  • introduction of modern education in British India by British government, Christian missionaries and enlightened Indians
  • Role of Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohan Roya and James Princep in spreading modern education in British India
  • Charles Wood’s Dispatch: the Magna Carta of Education
  • Hunter commission and Indian universities
  • Hurtog Committee, Sergeant Plan
  • Wardha scheme, Radhakrishnan Mission

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/klzAHwqbqN8

HFS3/P2: British India: Vernacular Press & Freedom of Speech

HFSP2-British-Press

  • phases of development of press in India
  • development of British policy on Press- various acts for regulation and censorship
  • Lord Lytton and Vernacular Press act 1878 and its abolition by Lord Rippon
  • Indian press acts of 1910 and 1931
  • previous questions from this topic in UPSC civil services examination

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/JpZK92ihJk0

HFS3/P3: British India: Rise of Indian Civil services

Indian Civil serviecs in British India

  • From Covenanted Civil services to Indian civil services (ICS)
  • provisions related to civil services in Charter act of 1833 and 1853
  • syllabus, Exam pattern, Age and attempt limit under Indian civil services act 1861
  • the role of Aithichson commission, Islington commission, Lee commission and government of India act 1935 for development and reforms in civil services
  • previous questions from this topic in UPSC civil services examination

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/hpKKucvXAyI

HFS3/P4: British India: Land Revenue System-Zamindari

HFSP4-British-Revenue-Zamindari

  • four phases of development of land revenue policies of the British India
  • phase 1: government system in Bengal and Zamindari system
  • phase 2: Izaredari system under Lord Warren Hastings
  • phase 3: Lord Cornwallis, Zamindars and permanent settlement system- its salient features and consequences

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/jk-Q_7_bvCk

HFS3/P5: British India: Land Revenue system-Ryotiwari

HFSP5-British-Revenue-Ryotwari

  • Phase 4 of British Land revenue policy: Thomas Munro and Ryotwari system – its salient features and consequences
  • Factors that affected the nature of land revenue settlement in India and their implications
  • previous questions from this topic in UPSC civil services examination

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/utees0yjseY

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