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Great Rebellion of 1857:
Lautaro A. |
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| The Rebellion of 1857 was a prolonged period of rebellions in Northern and Central India against British occupation of that part of the continent. Small precursors of brewing discontent involving incidences of firebombing in cantonment areas began to manifest themselves in January. Later, rebellion broke out in May. This war brought about the end of the British East India Company’s rule in India, and led to the direct rule by the British Government of much of the Indian Subcontinent for the next 90 years. |
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East India Company
Sofia C. |
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| It was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India. Although it started as a monopolistic trading body, it became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. |
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East India Company
Avril V. |
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The East India Company was a trading company. It was created and consolidated on the 31 of December 1600. The aim of this company was to explode and to take advantage of the trading of East India. England wanted to participate in the Indian specie trade. Since the beginning, the company traded basic stuff such as cotton, tea, salt, species and opium. This company, contributed with the emergence and the creation of the British Empire in India. This is due to the influence it had over politics and trading.
The company had opposition with the Dutch and the Portuguese, but after some years and wars, the EIC went over them and won their trading privileges. This is how the EIC managed to take control over India's economy and India's strongest trading points and as a result, the EIC had influence over politics and was able to contribute with the emergence of the British Empire in India. |
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What was the British Raj
Milenko L. |
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The British raj, was a period were England had control over the Indian subcontinent from 1853 until the independence of India in 1947. The raj succeeded management of the subcontinent by the British East India Company,
after wide-ranging distrust and dissatisfaction with company leadership resulted in a general rebellion of sepoy troops in 1857; leading to the British Rethink India’s governance structure. The British government controls the company’s assets, Direct rule is imposed. The raj aims to increase India’s participation in governance, but Indians have no right to decide their own future without the consent of the British, that led to an
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Economy Policy and Development of the Britsish Raj
Abril E. |
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Britain itself was at its peak during that period of time, and adding the industrial development, the rise in agricultural production and the expanding trade, the ruling over India became a major source of incomes.
Therefore, economic fields like Soil production, Opium trade to China and tax to salt grew bigger, bringing incomes big enough to maintain the army and later on, to pay remaining war debts. This growth demanded as well railroad networks to connect their yields and farming towns to the main British trading centers and ports, as were the cities of Calcutta or Bombay.
As damaging as British Raj was and considering every production they exploited, it still resulted in the launching of India's modern steel industry, India's tea and coffee industry and the agricultural and miner commercialization, among others. |
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Social Policies and organization of the British Raj
Aylen G. |
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| When british ruled colonial India followed a policy of non-interference in the social, religious and cultural life. Until 1813.after that year the british started to transform society and the culture. This happened because new ideas and thoughts appeared with the French and industrial revolution the idea of liberty and equality was introduced together with democracy and nationalism. It was the birth of industrial capitalism that way India became a big market that captured the world market. They developed a judicial system and the british promoted inferiority ideas towards Indian culture, texts literature, etc. Lacking reason of scientific validity. The Indians were divided in cast and creed so it was easy to do that they also spread the idea of the superiority of christianism betweens indians. They also planned to educate the upper and middle classes with a new educational system. Everything because they wanted to create a "modern colony" but in 1858 some revolts started. |
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Life in the British Raj
Dina L. |
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| India was ruled by the British for 200 years, first by the private East India Company, and then by the British government after the East India Company was finally abolished. How people lived during this period, really depended on who you were. If you were one of the top ranking British officials or one of the 1,000 odd British Civil servants, you literally lived like a king. The remainder of British officials, soldiers, businessmen lived a very comfortable life too as a superior. The rulers of the Princely states lived luxurious lives too. The minority elite Indians who got access to Western education and worked closely with the British lived a life full of opportunities too. Then, there was the emerging Middle Class, Government Clerks, Army men, Railway employees, Supervisors, Engineers, Lawyers, Academics, Printers, small businessmen catering to the British, who were living in urban centers lived reasonably comfortable lives. However, most Indians (90%) were tied to agriculture, toiled in the fields, often looking up towards the sky for rains, worrying about debt, the village moneylender, and worst-case starvation and disease. |
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Social Organization and Policies
Manuela P. |
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| India was ruled by the British for 200 years, first by the private East India Company, and then by the British government after the East India Company was finally abolished. How people lived during this period, really depended on who you were. If you were one of the top ranking British officials or one of the 1,000 odd British Civil servants, you literally lived like a king. The remainder of British officials, soldiers, businessmen lived a very comfortable life too as a superior. The rulers of the Princely states lived luxurious lives too. The minority elite Indians who got access to Western education and worked closely with the British lived a life full of opportunities too. Then, there was the emerging Middle Class, Government Clerks, Army men, Railway employees, Supervisors, Engineers, Lawyers, Academics, Printers, small businessmen catering to the British, who were living in urban centers lived reasonably comfortable lives. However, most Indians (90%) were tied to agriculture, toiled in the fields, often looking up towards the sky for rains, worrying about debt, the village moneylender, and worst-case starvation and disease. |
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Education during the British Raj
Bono M. |
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The english language was very important, Being that they wanted it to be influenced
and spoken throughout society. Primary and secondary schools started working,
although. men could only assist at them. Reformers tried to civilize India people trough talks and debates, but, they lose most important debates.
As i said, Britain made the English language a high priority, so they implemnted it in each school. |
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Dehli under British Rule
Jazmin K. |
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During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Delhi fell under British control, and stayed that way until 1947, year in which India gained it’s independence as a country. After the Brits took control of the city, parts of it’s historical neighborhood were demolished to build the new government buildings, and as it’s importance increased, it’s population, economy and commercial activities grew.
In 1911 the British government announced that the capital of India was to be transferred from Calcutta to Delhi, and the name “New Delhi” was used from 1927 onwards. After the country gained it’s independence, New Delhi continued to be the capital.” |
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Shimla during the Biritsh Raj
Agostina O. |
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| The Great famine of 1776-1978 or The famine of Madras, was one of the 31 famines during British crown´s rule. It affected the south and southern of India, taking with it the life of 5.5 million people.Previously, on another famine, severe mortality was avoid by export rice from Burma, however the authorities were criticized by the excessive cost of this action. The famine of Madras( the president in charge at that time) was caused by an intense drought, leaving as a consequence a crop failure at the Deccan Plateau. However, the most curios is that the Viceroy Lytton who held a banquet for 60000 people in honor of Queen Victoria's Coronation., also was the overseer of the export to Britain of the biggest amount of crop ever on the history. This substantially weakened the rich cultural and economic strength of southern India, specifically |
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The Fishing Fleet
Abril A. |
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| The fishing fleet went on long voyages across the sapphire waters of the Indian Ocean, the trips was full of many young women, dressed in uncomfortable corsets only for impress a man. They were forced to dress like this, some suffered from dizziness as they staggered from the strong heat. These were the girls from the "Fishing Fleet", and they had come to India for the purpose of getting a husband. Such were the fates of the fishing fleet that reached India by the thousands years. Steamboats, which took over navigation in the mid-19th century, were safer, faster, and more comfortable, and romantic. Many girls from the Fishing Fleet got engaged during moonlight walks on deck with a handsome young man. The journey could take months and was full of dangers, pirates and storms |
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Life in the BRitish Raj
Juana D. |
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| In the period of the British raj, there were two educational systems,, one was focused more in spiritual and classical education rather than practical education. People suffered under British rule. They were starred, stolen from, derived justice. Many British were also critical of child marriage and supportive of equal education of men and women. Everything they did was for the sake of enriching the British. Also there were an amount of poverty. |
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Great Famine 1876 - 1878
Giuliana M |
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| The Great famine of 1776-1978 or The famine of Madras, was one of the 31 famines during British crown´s rule. It affected the south and southern of India, taking with it the life of 5.5 million people.Previously, on another famine, severe mortality was avoid by export rice from Burma, however the authorities were criticized by the excessive cost of this action. The famine of Madras( the president in charge at that time) was caused by an intense drought, leaving as a consequence a crop failure at the Deccan Plateau. However, the most curios is that the Viceroy Lytton who held a banquet for 60000 people in honor of Queen Victoria's Coronation., also was the overseer of the export to Britain of the biggest amount of crop ever on the history. This substantially weakened the rich cultural and economic strength of southern India, specifically |
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| Participation of Indian Soldiers in WW1 |
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Gandhi
Santiago L y Federico P. |
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| The Great famine of 1776-1978 or The famine of Madras, was one of the 31 famines during British crown´s rule. It affected the south and southern of India, taking with it the life of 5.5 million people.Previously, on another famine, severe mortality was avoid by export rice from Burma, however the authorities were criticized by the excessive cost of this action. The famine of Madras( the president in charge at that time) was caused by an intense drought, leaving as a consequence a crop failure at the Deccan Plateau. However, the most curios is that the Viceroy Lytton who held a banquet for 60000 people in honor of Queen Victoria's Coronation., also was the overseer of the export to Britain of the biggest amount of crop ever on the history. This substantially weakened the rich cultural and economic strength of southern India, specifically |
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Who was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose?
Guido L. |
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Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist, he fought for the freedom of India but made some pretty shady and controversial alliances with the Axis in WWII
He thought that the WWII was an opportunity to set India free, he reached out to Stalin, who was declined the offer, nonetheless, Subhas gained Adolf Hitler’s sympathy, and with help of Japan, they created the Nacional Indian Army
He died in a plane crash in 1945, but the thing is that the body was never found, so in 1999, the government founded a commission to clarify his death, and six years later, they determined that the plane crash never happened and it was a hoax to facilitate his escape to the URSS |
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Partition of 1947
Martina S. |
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| The partition of India started in 1947, however the announced by Louis Mountbatten was that year the idea was said many years back by viceroy Lord Curzon. The dissolution of the British Raj or British India divide it into two; the Union of India (today Republic of India) and Dominion of Pakistan (now the Islamic Republic of Pakistan). Also, this process diverges the British Indian army into the Royal Indian Navy, the civil service, the railways and the Central treasury. Regretfully the partition had a large scale of violence which estimates many losses of life, approximately 200,000 to 2 million death, making an extensive issue the violence against women. Even though the Partition of India had a huge impact on millions of people living in India British India won its independence from the British and split into two new states that would rule themselves. |
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