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When the Parliament had renewed the charter of the East India Company for 20 years in 1813, it had required the company to apply 100,000 rupees per year [1] "for the revival and promotion of literature and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories."
Lieutenant General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck GCB GCH PC (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of Fort William (Bengal) from 1828 to 1834 and the first governor-general of India from 1834 to 1835.
Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor-General of India in the end of 1833. [1] The "Governor-General in Council" were given exclusive legislative powers, that is, the right to proclaim laws which would be enforced as the law of the land across the whole of British India.
Source: [11] A regulation for declaring the practice of sati, or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus, illegal, and punishable by the criminal courts, passed by the governor-general in council on 4 December 1829, corresponding with the 20th Aughun 1236 Bengal era; the 23rd Aughun 1237 Fasli; the 21st Aughun 1237 Vilayati; the 8th Aughun 1886 Samavat; and the 6th Jamadi-us-Sani 1245 ...
Treaty of Yandabo, 1826 (East India Company humiliates and extracts 1 million Pounds from the Burmese King Bagyidaw) William Butterworth Bayley (acting) (1782–1860) 13 March 1828: 4 July 1828 Governors-General of India, 1833–1858 Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839) 4 July 1828 20 March 1835 First Governor General of India; Bengal Sati ...
The law was enacted on 26 July 1856. [1] It was drafted by Lord Dalhousie and passed by Lord Canning before the Indian Rebellion of 1857 . It was the first major social reform legislation after the abolition of sati pratha in 1829 by Lord William Bentinck .
William Bentinck, in an 1829 report, without specifying the year or period, stated that "of the 463 satis occurring in the whole of the Presidency of Fort William, [f] 420 took place in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, or what is termed the Lower Provinces, and of these latter 287 in the Calcutta Division alone". For the Upper Provinces, Bentinck ...
Bentinck became Lieutenant Governor on 15 June 1770 and introduced important reforms. [5]:199 Large political reforms were issued by the Crown in 1771. This represents the Crown's attempt to separate the judiciary from the legislature. [2]: 19 Bentinck and the Lemprières issued the Code of Laws of 1771. [1]