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India · 1864Lawrence's Viceroyalty begins amid the cotton boom and the Great Calcutta Cyclone

Sir John Lawrence became Viceroy in January 1864 under the post-1858 Crown system, and Simla was established as the summer capital of the Government of India. The American Civil War's cotton boom enriched Bombay and fed speculative finance, while an October cyclone devastated Calcutta. The Imperial Forest Department was established and the Bhutan War began.

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Key figures

Sir John Lawrence — Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869; 'Saviour of Punjab' during 1857; associated with the policy of 'Sir Syed Ahmad Khan — founded the Scientific Society in 1864; pioneer of the Aligarh movement and Muslim educational refDietrich Brandis — first Inspector-General of Forests in India; regarded as the father of scientific forestry in India.Satyendranath Tagore — first Indian in the Indian Civil Service.Premchand Roychand — Bombay financier known as the 'Cotton King', associated with the cotton-boom share mania.Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay — author of Rajmohan's Wife, serialized in 1864.

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