India Reference library
James Heitzman, André Wink, Om Prakash, and B. R. Tomlinson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
...protection of the greatest of the Maratha war chiefs, Mahadji Scindia . Then, in 1803 , with the defeat of the Marathas by the British armies of Lord Lake , Delhi was occupied by the East India Company, and the Mughal emperor was reduced to a “tinsel sovereign.” Following the Mutiny of 1857 , also known as the First War of Indian Independence, in 1858 the British Crown assumed direct charge of the Indian possessions. In the Delhi Durbar of 1877 , Queen Victoria was proclaimed Queen Empress. I ndian M arket . Women selling grains and vegetables. Painting...
Sedition and Espionage Acts Reference library
Scott Henkel
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
...of having opposed the war and supported the Bolshevik revolution. The Espionage Act of 1917 changed the legal definition of “espionage”: the term had previously been defined as sharing secrets with an enemy, but the new law defined the term as “false statements” that would discourage the war effort. The Espionage Act made it illegal to convey information “to cause or attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty in the military.” The Sedition Act of 1918 codified limitations on unpatriotic speech by stating that “whoever, when...
Bright, John (1811–89) Reference library
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
...of the company’s charter in 1853 . He said that instead of being controlled by a trading company, India should be the responsibility of a government department with a minister of state. Bright pressed for less authoritarian British rule in India both before and after the Indian Mutiny ( 1857 ), for which he blamed British misrule. He argued that the Indian people should be allowed to elect their own government, and demanded the decentralization of the government in India. In February 1879 he again advocated decentralization, without success. In 1868 ...
