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g He established the first medical college in time postage stamps were issued, Postal and
Calcutta. Telegraph systems were established.

Lord Charles Metcalfe g First telegraph line was laid between
(1835-1836) Calcutta and Agra.
g Lord Charles g He established Public Works Department for
Metacalfe is called as the construction and maintenance of canals,
‘Liberator of Indian roads, bridges, etc.
Press’, as he g Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-1849) and
removed all restric- annexation of Punjab in 1849.
tions on open press
g Abolition of titles and pensions.
in India.
g Shimla became the ‘Summer Capital of
Lord Dalhousie (1848- Lord Charles India’ and permanent headquarters of
1856) Metcalfe
army.
g Lord Dalhousie
g Competitive examination for Indian Civil
introduced
Services were started.
‘Doctorine of Lapse’
g Headquarters of the Bengal Artillery were
for annexing the
shifted from Calcutta to Meerut.
dependant States
g An Engineering college was established at
whose ruler died
Roorkee.
without a natural
heir to succeed him. g The Charter Act of 1853 passed.

g Some important g Widow Remariage Act (1856) — the main
Indian States, contributor to pass this act was Ishwar
namely, Satara Lord Dalhousie Chandra Vidyasagar.
(1848), Udaipur Lord Canning (1856-1857)
(1852), Jhansi (1853), Jaitpur & g Universities of Bombay, Calcutta and
Sambhalpur (1854) and Nagpur (1854) Madras were set up in 1857.
were annexed by the enforcement of the
g The revolt of 1857.
Doctorine of Lapse.
g Lord Dalhousie also introduced Doctrine of
Good of Governed under which Awadh
(1856) and Punjab (1849) were annexed.
g Charles Wood’s Dispatch on Indian educa-
tion was accepted, which is called
Magnacarta of British Education.

g Railway minutes of 1853 and laying down
of first connecting Bombay and Thane in
1853.
g Post Office Act, 1854 was passed and first Lord Canning

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