1. The Educational Dispatch of Charles Wood (1854) outlined a comprehensive scheme of education-primary, secondary, collegiate.
2. Departments of Public Instruction and a university for each of the three Presidencies were organized for the purpose.
3. University of Madras was established under this plan (1857), along with universities in Bombay and Calcutta.

1. Cornwallis organized company administration securing the services of William Jones, a judge and an Orientalist.
2. He set up a machinery for the detection and punishment of crime, thereby ending the dual system of government established by Clive.
3. The collection of revenue was separated from administration and justice.
4. He deprived the collectors of their judicial function and confined them to revenue collection.
5. Civil and criminal courts were thoroughly reorganized.
6. At the top of the judicial system were the Sadar Diwani Adalat and the Sadar Nizamat Adalat.

1. Traditionally Hindu custom allowed the adoption of a son in the absence of male heirs.
2. The adopted son had the right to inherit property. In this context the question raised was whether such an adopted prince holding the state subordinate to the Paramount Power (England) could succeed without the consent of the latter.
3. Before Dalhousie's arrival, the custom was to obtain the sanction of the Company government before or after adoption.

1. 'Settlement' refers to the assessment and fixing of the quantum of land revenue to be paid by each zamindar to the government.
2. For Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, this was fixed permanently.
3. Thus the zamindars who were originally tax collectors acquired hereditary rights over the land assigned by the government.

1. The Diwan's duty included the collection of revenue and the control of civil justice.
2. The Nizam's function was to exercise military power and to dispense criminal justice
3. Thus the Company acquired the real power, while the responsibility of administration was with the Nawab.
4. This arrangement is called Dual System or Double government or Dyarchy.