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Battle of Plassey
This battle had 3000 British East India company soldiers against a 5000 men strong army of the young Nawab, of Bengal, Siraj ud Daulah, and the allies from the French East India Company. However, on the day of battle, which was June23rd, 1957, heavy rains spoiled Nawab's cannon powder, while the British had cleverly covered theirs, therefore they won. The British also managed to take around 5 million dollars from the Bengali treasure, which funded continued expansion. -
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Indian Imperialism
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East Indian Company
The British East India company heavily taxed Bengali farmers and common workers in India, and other policies too had made them very poor indeed. While the British became wealthy and healthy, the Indigenous people of Bengal were starved. This was not favourable in the eyes of the Indian, but the British believed it to be a great step toward really expanding and improving upon their empire. Many described the British Empire in India to be "the jewel in the British crown." -
British Imperialism in India
During the early to mid-1800s, the British East India Company controlled a large area of India. This trading company treated India as a private colony. After that, the British government took direct contrl. Great Britain ruled about three-fifths of the Indian subcontinent. The rest was divided up into more than 550 states. An Indian prince headed each of these states. -
Indian Revolution
First Indian Revolution, called the Sepoy Mutiny, ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow. 1858: India has 200 miles of railroad track. By 1869 5,000 miles of steel track have been completed by British railroad companies. In 1900, total track is 25,000 miles, and by World War I, 35,000 miles. By 1970, at 62,136 miles, it has become the world's greatest train system. Unfortunately, this development depletes India's forest lands. -
New System of Governance
After the rebellion that lasted over a year in India, without much success, the East India Company handed their powers to the British monarch who at that time was Queen Victoria. She promised to “better the Indian subjects”, but that could mean anything from giving them a better quality of life to making them more ‘civilized’ and like the British. According to Szczepanski, the British practiced a military strategy of divide and conquer in India. -
Indian National Congress
Westernization and Modernization grew nationalism and made the INC.December 28th, 1885 was the first meeting of the Indian National Congress. The Congress was a group of self-appointed delegates from British India. The men on the Congress were mainly Hindus: there were a few Muslims, the number began to decrease. Every year in December, this group met in December to petition against the new British government reforms. They opposed the new Muslim League in that way: the Hindus were against the B -
Amritsar Massacre
In Amritsar, India’s holy city of the Sikh religion, British and The day of the Sikh Baisakhi festival, thousands of people came to attend the citys traditional fairs. They were unaware of Dyer's recent ban,Gurkha troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators meeting at the Jallianwala Bagh, a city park. Most of those killed were Indian nationalists meeting to protest the British government’s forced conscription of Indian soldiers and the heavy war tax imposed against the Indian people. -
Gandhis movement
Ghandi emerged as a leader and ran marches for independence. He began his civil disobedience movement. Gandhi used his political and religious knowledge. Gandhi ruled by nonviolence and had millions of followers. His teachings blended with ideas from all of the major religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity, He Led boycotts, strikes, and demonstrations. Ghandi Battled injustice with religious approaches and poilitcal activities. Known as Mahatma. -
Independence for India
Due to World Wars I and II, the British had now become short on finances, and a lot of their war efforts had been supported by the wealth they found in India. During that time, the feud between the Muslims and Hindus grew to a dangerous war and therefore, the Muslims fled north and created what is now known as Pakistan. The majority of Hindus stayed in India, and finally gained their independence once the British realized they were more or less powerless. -
Riots between Hindus and Muslim
The British were trying to decide who to give the power too, and they both didn't want one another leading. The Muslim fwere often ignored during the Indian National Congress' rule so the Muslm league demanded the creation of Pakistan. August 16, 1946 as Direct Action Day (Burrows). On this day, Muslims throughout the country held demonstrations. So, the British set forth a partition and split up the Hindus and Muslims into two countries.
