28-12-2017, 04:44 PM
Highlights of Queen's Proclamation of 1858
*The British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston presented the Act of 1858 in British Parliament.
*Lord Canning read out the Queen’s Proclamation of 1858 at Allahabad on 1st November 1858.
*It is also known as ‘The Magna Carta of the people of India”.
*Highlights of Queen’s Proclamation of 1858:
*East India company was abolished.
*Redesignation of Governor General of India as Viceroy
*Secretary of State for India was responsible for administration.
*The policy of imperial expansion will be abandoned.
*An Indian Civil Service will be created under the control of the Secretary of State.
*The crown was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies.
*First Secretary of State for India
Ans : Edward Henry Stanley
* The longest serving secretary of state for India
Ans : George Hamilton
Main centres & the Leaders of rhe 1857 Revolt
Beegum Hazrat Mahal Khan Bahadur Khan Maulavi Ahammadullah Diwan Maniram Putti Devi Singh Nanasahib Kadam Singh
*Delhi - Bakth Khan
*Bihar - Kunwar Singh
*Jagadishpur - Kunwar Singh
*Jhansi - Rani Lakshmi Bhai
*Gwalior - Rani Lakshmi Bhai
*Lucknow - Begum Hazrat Mahal
*Agra - Beegum Hazrat Mahal
*Awadh - Beegum Hazrat Mahal
*Bareilly - Khan Bhadur Khan
*Faizabad - Maulavi Ahammadullah
*Assam - Diwan Maniram Putti
*Mathura - Devi Singh
*Kanpur - Nanasahib
*Meerut - Kadam Singh
