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From Trade to Territory - The Company Establishes Power
Describe the new system of justice that was established from 1772.
From 1772 a new system of justice was established.
(i)Each district was to have two courts – a criminal court ( faujdari adalat ) and a civil court (diwani adalat).
(ii)Maulvis and Hindu pandits interpreted Indian laws for the European district collectors who presided over civil courts.
(iii)The criminal courts were still under a qazi and a mufti but under the supervision of the collectors.
(iv)To bring about uniformity, in 1775 eleven pandits were asked to compile a digest of Hindu laws. By 1778 a code of Muslim laws was also compiled for the benefit of European judges.
(v)Under the Regulating Act of 1773, a new Supreme Court was established, while a court of appeal – the Sadar Nizamat Adalat – was also set up at Calcutta.
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The British conquest of Bengal began with the Battle of _____________.
Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan were the rulers of _____________.
Dalhousie implemented the Doctrine of _________.
Maratha kingdoms were located mainly in the ___________ part of India.
The Mughal empire became stronger in the eighteenth century.
The English East India Company was the only European company that traded with India.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the ruler of Punjab.
The British did not introduce administrative changes in the territories they conquered.
What attracted European trading companies to India?
What were the areas of conflict between the Bengal nawabs and the East India Company?
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