The Bulgarian Horrors

Prime Ministers

Tory Social Reform, 1874-76

• Urban Conservatism
• Country house and suburb
• Disraeli and Empire

India

Orientalists

Anglicizers

• Macaulay
• "to create a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."
• Minute on Indian Education 1835
• English higher education
• Utilitarian legal code

Revolt of 1857

• Sepoys
• Meerut
• Mughal Emperor
• Kanpur
• Lucknow
• Delhi
• Revenge

1876

• Suez Canal
• Empress of India, 1876

Gladstone

• 1870 First Vatican Council
  • infallibility
• 1874 pamphlet
• 1876 The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East

The Eastern Question

• 1877 Russo-Turkish War
• 1878 Congress of Berlin
  • Balance of power
  • Cyprus
  • "peace with honour"

General Election of 1880

Why did India become more important in British domestic politics in the 1860s and 1870s?

Why did anyone in Britain care about the Middle East in this period?