Summary
- Statutory Civil Services Act 1878 - lateral entry to loyalists
- The Vernacular Press Act 1878: regulate press
- Arms Act 1878: indians need licence to own arms but not others
- Afghan Adventure during famine
- 1876: dec age limit for Civil Services during EIC from 21 to 19
- prevented exam from being conducted in india
- Statutory Civil Services Act 1878
- ”lateral entry”
- ensured that only loyalists were nominated as entry was by nomination
- 1877: press campaign by WEMC for indianization of CS
- no result however
- 1877: Imperial Darbar held. Wasteful expenditure at the time of famine
- for coronation of queen 👸
- The Vernacular Press Act 1878 brought
- to regulate the highly critical vernacular press
- deposit money forfeited if press published anything anti-british
- resulted in press campaign (led by Bipin Chandra Pal). Even British liberal MP Gladstone criticized it
- Arms Act 1878: Indians need licence to own arms but Anglo Indians, Europeans don’t need (anxious, racist Lytton)
- Second Afghar War: unnecessary expense as no real threat from Russia, esp. during famines.
- Afghan Adventure
- 1880: Gladstone became PM. He sent the liberal Ripon to India.