Ilbert Bill was related to which controversy?
Ilbert Bill
British subjects in 1873 had been exempted from trial by Indian magistrates, and in cases involving death or transportation, they could only be tried by a high court. However, by 1883, the viceroy, Lord Ripon, proposed the Ilbert Bill, which allowed a British or a European to be tried by an Indian judge. This proposal provoked furious protests and a huge controversy, especially among the Calcutta (Kolkata) European business community and the Bengal indigo planters, and there was covert sympathy from many officials. It is also known that A compromise was reached by which a British subject could claim a jury, half of which would be Europeans. The new Westernized Indian middle class felt itself slighted by this arrangement, and the incident did much to give Indian national feeling a political form and became a prelude to the formation of the Indian National Congress.
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2) https://youtu.be/fqh9GP4k_m0
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