Read the excerpt, from a British newspaper, given below and answer the question that follows:

What does the Viceroy propose doing? It is, in a few words, to bind, for the first time in history, the European British subjects of Her Majesty in the interior of India to submit to be tried on criminal charges by a native of the country, provided he belong to the covenanted Civil Service and get the power from Government. Europeans criminally accused have hitherto been able to claim a trial by one of their own countrymen. The right of making this claim is to be taken away.

Which bill is being proposed by the Viceroy to in the above excerpt? What was its implication on the Indian judicial system?

Mention two main objectives of the Indian Association.

Various factors led to the rise and growth of nationalism in India in the 19th century. In this context, explain the role of each of the following:

(a) Economic Exploitation.

(b) Repressive Colonial Policies.

(c) The Press.

Read the excerpt given below and answer the question that follows:

"From the mid-18th century, it was a European corporation, the East India Company - run from the City of London by merchants and accountants, with their ledgers and careful accounting - that ran amok and seized and subjugated a fragmented and divided India in what was probably the supreme act of corporate violence in history."
—William Dalrymple

(a) What term is used to describe the East India Company's act of running India's trade and finance from the city of London? How did it work?

(b) What was its impact on the artisans and craftsmen?

(c) The author has described the East India Company's act as 'Corporate violence'. What term was used by Dadabhai Naoroji for such an act? Describe how it worked.