pany's rule the Indians saw some leniency in the laws and in the punishments because the Company didn't care.
             The "new" British government inherited many problems from the East India Company like: poverty, nationalism amongst the Indians, numerous natural disasters, famines, the fact that the Indians didn't like their colonial status, and that the British didn't like the Hindu faith. Taking in all of these facts Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
             During the next fifty years Indian people began to form secretive organizations, lead propaganda campaigns, and try create an awareness among the people as to what the British government was doing in the land, to the people, and to the Hindu faith. An especially powerful organization among the Indians was the Indian National Congress. This organization worked hard to unite the people of India and to better inform them of the government and its practices. All of these things put together posed a very serious threat to the British control of India. The congress incited many years of violent uprisings and acts of terrorism by the Indian people. Because of Victorian fear of anything remotely "off-colored" or sexual the Hindu faith was repressed and the leaders were imprisoned or killed as examples to the rest of the nation. But, through the work of the Indian National Congress; when the British would retaliate, the people would boycott British goods causing even more problems for!
             the profit-hungry Brits. Finally the British tried to quell the rebellion by passing laws that allowed them to imprison and punish Indian "seditionists" without a trial. This only led to more unrest of the native people.
             Indian nationalism was not a simple unification of Indians against colonial rule. There were m
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