Answer in detail:

Discuss the result of the Great Revolt of 1857 and Queen Victoria’s Proclamation.

The revolt of 1857 proved a turning-point for Queen Victoria herself. Throughout 1857 and 1858 India frenzied the energies of the Queen. The rebellion was suppressed easily by the British and, they turned their attention to the post-war settlement – the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown.

As a result Queen Victoria's Proclamation came in November 1, 1858. On November 1, 1858, a splendid Darbar was held at Allahabad. Lord Canning sent the royal proclamation which announced that the queen had taken control of the government of India. This proclamation also affirmed the future policy of the British Rule in India.

News of the revolt in India reached London in July 1857 and at the end of the famous ‘sepoy mutiny’, the Queen was supposed as a court of final decision. At the same time, Victoria was a Christian queen within a European culture and involved in a heightened sense of religious difference and dominance. By the mid-1850s she had visions on the evangelical Protestant ideology of British India.

The revolt of 1857 in India came up because of the clash between religious cultures, so Queen Victoria became raised because of her Protestant passion.

Queen Victoria sought out her own channels of information about the unfolding events of 1857 revolt

• She collected details from returning officers and widows who passed through her court,

• Descriptions were taken from specially commissioned artists and photographers, and

• She also collected news from her own private correspondents in India.

• the legislation enacting the new arrangements made its way through Parliament in 1858

• The royal authority intervened to ensure that royal prerogative was upheld.

Later in 1947, at the time of independence; the cabinet of Lord Derby came to write the Proclamation explaining the transfer of power to the peoples of India. Soon, the Queen and her royal group changed fundamentally the tone and text of the document in ways which ensured it to be known as the ‘Magna Carta’ of Indian liberties.