At Plassey in 1757, Robert Clive's Company force defeated Siraj ud-Daulah after key Bengal commanders stayed out of the fight. What changed in Bengal next?

At Buxar in 1764, Company troops defeated Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula, and Mughal emperor Shah Alam II. What did that victory make possible?

Once the Company could collect Bengal's land and customs revenues after 1765, what could it do with Indian tax income?

In 1773 Parliament responded to Company debt and criticism by passing the Regulating Act. Which office did it create at Fort William in Bengal?

Pitt's India Act of 1784 kept the Company in India but changed oversight from London. What body did it create to monitor and direct Company policy?

Under Marquess Wellesley and later governors-general, the Company used conquest and alliance against Mysore, Marathas, Sikhs, and others. What was the result by 1856?

In 1857 Bengal Army sepoys heard that Enfield cartridges had to be bitten open and were greased with cow and pig fat. Why did this become a flashpoint?

At Meerut on May 10, 1857, jailed troopers were freed by other sepoys. What did the rebels do next?

When mutineers reached Delhi, whom did many ask to lead or symbolize the uprising?

Beyond cartridges, Company annexations helped turn soldier mutinies into wider revolts. Which policy alarmed rulers such as Jhansi?

Which list names major centers of revolt after the Meerut outbreak?

Why was the British recapture of Delhi in September 1857 important to suppressing the rebellion?

In central India, Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi resisted after annexation of her state. What happened when Hugh Rose's force attacked Jhansi in 1858?

After British armies crushed the 1857-58 rebellion, what major political change followed?

Under the Government of India Act of 1858, who replaced the Company's directors as the top authority in London for India?

The 1858 royal proclamation promised to respect princes' treaties and avoid interference in religion. What was it trying to do after the rebellion?

Lord Canning had been governor-general during the rebellion. Under Queen Victoria's 1858 proclamation, what new role did he receive?

At the Delhi Durbar of 1877, Queen Victoria was proclaimed under which imperial title?

After 1857, British officials distrusted the old Bengal Army recruiting base. Which change did they make in the Indian Army?

Colonial railways expanded after the first passenger line opened from Bombay to Thane in 1853. What did they help the Raj move across India?

During famine crises such as 1876-78, the Raj used railways and relief works but kept a market-and-export system that critics said worsened hunger. What followed?

Before national parties took shape, Banerjea and Ananda Mohan Bose founded a Kolkata political association in 1876 to press for civil service access. Which group was it?

At Bombay in 1885, educated Indian lawyers and public figures met in the first Indian National Congress. What did early Congress sessions mainly demand?

Dadabhai Naoroji's Poverty and Un-British Rule in India put numbers behind the drain argument. What was he arguing?

The 1905 partition of Bengal triggered swadeshi boycotts. In that climate, nawabs and landowners meeting at Dacca in 1906 founded which body to speak for India's largest religious minority?