WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Much of the blame for the mutiny fell on the ineptitude of the East India Company. On August 2, 1858, Parliament passed the Government of India Act, transferring British power over India from the company to the crown.

Detailed explanation-2: -Commercialization of agriculture hard hit the labourers where numbers of landless labourers increased. Social and Cultural Impact: Amid social issues like Sati, Child Marriages, Infanticides; ideas like Liberty, Equality, Freedom, and Human Rights were brought by the British.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 1815 Britain had made this vision a reality, establishing both a continental balance of power and an intercontinental empire on which the sun never set. Britain had become the first truly global power in history.

Detailed explanation-4: -The formal British rule in India is under-stood to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the British East India Company. Henceforth the British Company transformed from a commercial trading venture to a political entity which virtually ruled India.