TIMELINE INCIDENT |1861 |COMPETITVE EXAM|

◦ Lord Canning 1858-1862

◦ Archaeological Survey of India founded in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham, who also became                                                       

         its first Director-general

◦ 1861(1853, 1856, 1875) - Alexander Cunningham: 1826 - Charles Masson; 1831 - Alexander         Burnes 

◦ Widow ReMarriage Society (Association) of Ranade was established at Poona in 1861

◦ Widow Marriage Association (1861)

◦ Indian Councils Act 1861

‣ beginning of representative institutions by associating Indians with the law-making process

‣ process of decentralisation by restoring the legislative powers to the Bombay and Madras Presidencies

‣ recognition to the ‘portfolio’ system, introduced by Lord Canning in 1859.

◦ Phulaguri peasants’ rebellion in 1861

◦ Indian Police Act, 1861

◦ Criminal Procedure Code (1861)

◦ Army Amalgamation Scheme, 1861

◦ Radhaswami Movement, Tulsi Ram, a banker from Agra, also known as Shiv Dayal Saheb, founded this movement in 1861

◦ Indian Civil Service Act

◦ Introduction of the Penal code

◦ The first cotton mill established in the year 1861 was at Ahmedabad

◦ According to the Indian High Courts Act, 1861, three High Courts were set up in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in place of the old Supreme Courts.

◦ The length of railways increased from 2,573 km in 1861 to 55,773 km in 1914

◦ In 1861 Tsar Alexander II abolished serfdom and emancipated the serfs

◦ American Civil War (1861–65)

◦ Birth of Rabindranath Tagore