Test: Administrative Changes after 1858 - 2 - UPSC MCQ

Satyendra Nath Tagore, brother of Rabindranath Tagore, was the first Indian to successfully sit for the Indian Civil Service examination in 1863.

After 1858, the British followed the policy of divide and rule by turning the princes against the people, province against province, caste against caste, group against group, and above all, Hindus against Muslims.

In 1876, Queen Victoria assumed the title of the Empress of India to emphasize British sovereignty over the entire Indian subcontinent.

The British turned against educated Indians who had imbibed modern western knowledge and stood for progress along modern lines when they began to organize a nationalist movement and founded the Indian National Congress in 1885.

The British government cleverly used the attractions of government service to create a split along religious lines among the educated Indians.

The first Indian Factory Act was passed in 1881 and dealt primarily with the problem of child labor.

The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878 in an attempt to curb the freedom of the Indian Press.

The examination was based on Classical Greek and Latin learning, which could be acquired only after a prolonged and costly course of studies in England.

The British abandoned their previous policy of helping the social reformers because they believed that their measures of social reform, such as the abolition of the custom of sati and permission to widows to remarry, had been a major cause of the Revolt of 1857.

Railway compartments, waiting rooms at railway stations, parks, hotels, swimming pools, clubs, etc., reserved for 'Europeans only' were visible manifestations of racial antagonism by the British in India. The Indians felt humiliated.