Ilbert Bill
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The Ilbert Bill was a bill introduced in 1883 for British India by Lord Ripon that proposed an amendment for existing laws in the country at the time to allow Indian judges and magistrates the jurisdiction to try British offenders in criminal cases at the District level, something that was disallowed at the time. However, the introduction of the bill led to intense opposition in Britain and from British settlers in India that ultimately played on racial tensions before it was enacted in 1884 in a severely compromised state. The bitter controversy deepened antagonism between the British and Indians and was a prelude to the formation of the Indian National Congress the following year.
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- Ilbert Bill from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- The Ilbert Bill : A Study of Anglo-Indian Opinion in India, 1883. Christine Dobbin. Historical Studies: Australia & New Zealand, 12:45 (1965), 87-104
- White Mutiny. The Ilbert Bill Crisis in India and Genesis of the Indian National Congress. Richard Cashman. Pacific Affairs, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 514-515.
- England and India: The Ilbert Bill, 1883: A case study of the metropolitan press. Chandrika Kaul. Indian Economic Social History Review 1993; 30; 413.
