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Governor Charles Trevelyan recalled

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Governor Charles Trevelyan recalled
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Madras Governor Sir Charles Trevelyan was recalled after his government publicly opposed James Wilson's new taxation proposals for India.

Sir Charles Trevelyan, a civil service reformer, took up the governorship of Madras in the spring of 1859, and a police system was organised across the presidency during his term. In February 1860 the finance member James Wilson introduced a plan of retrenchment and new taxation at Calcutta and sent it to Madras. On 4 March an open telegram conveyed the Madras government's adverse opinion, and its objections were made public. When news reached Britain, Trevelyan was recalled, a decision debated in Parliament. He later returned to India as finance member from 1862 to 1865.

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