Oct 14 Crisis in the Raj

I. the Company-State
economic policies
a military state: 46,000 British troops; 230,000 sepoys

Singapore (1819)
Burma (1824-26)
China (1839-42, 1856-60)
Afghanistan (1838-42)
Sind (1843)
Punjab (1845-49)

II. orientalism vs. interventionism
Lord William Bentinck (gg 1828-35)
Lord Dalhousie (gg 1848-56)
-Awadh; Lucknow
-1765 treaty
-Nawab Wajid Ali Shah

II. 1857

May 10, 1857

centers of rebellion
1) Meerut (contemporary British account)
2) Awadh
-siege of Lucknow
3) recently annexed Maratha territories
-Nana Sahib
-Kanpur (Cawnpore)

counterinsurgency

III. mutiny?

IV. outcomes

-India Act of 1858
-army reforms/ martial race ideology (Lowell, "The Relief of Lucknow")
-shift in imperial ideology