The Maharaja of Pannah

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The British In India
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Why ?

• Why were the British even interested
  in the Colonization of India?
• Answer Resources, Raw Materials,
• Taxation of the People, World Trade
• Opportunities.

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British East India Company Agents
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Coins of the British East India Co.
1719 coin 1804 coin
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Coffee House in British India
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Sepoy soldiers Indian Soldiers who join the
British Colonial Army
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Sir Robert Clive
The British fight, along with their Indian
Colonial Sepoys, to conquer the continent of India
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Battle of Plassey 1757
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Why wasBritainso successfulin Indiaby the
endof the 18c??
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India in mid-18c
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Lord Cornwallis
r. 1786 - 1793
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British Soldiers in India,
1830s
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The British Start Imposing their Laws on the
Indian People

• The British outlaw the practice of a Indian wife
  throwing herself onto the funeral pyre of her
  dead husband Sati
• The British begin forcing the people of India to
  support British Trade by producing British
  Cotton, Tea, and Opium

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Outlawing Suttee (sati)
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British Opium Warehouse in
Patna, India
Selling Patna Opium in China
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India 18c-early 19c
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Sir Raghubir Singh, Maharaja of Bundi
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The Maharaja of Pannah
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The Sepoy Mutiny 1857
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Why did the Sepoy Rebellion begin?

• 1. Reduction in Salary for the Sepoy Soldiers
• 2. Insensitivity to Indian Customs
• 3. Food Scarcity
• 4. Heavier Tax Burden

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Areas of the Sepoy Mutiny,
1857
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The Seige of Lucknow
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Execution of SepoysThe Devils Wind
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The Raj "Jewel in the Crown" of the British
Empire
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1876 Queen Victoria Becomes
Empress of India
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Queen Victoria in India
PAX BRITANNICA
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Sikhs Bengal Cavalry of the British Army
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15th Ludhiana Sikhs 1889
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Assorted British Soldiers, 1890s
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British Colonial Life During the Raj
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A LifeofLeisure!
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Br. Viceroys Daughter Simla, 1863
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Lady Curzon, 1904
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Living Like a Maharajah
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Darjeeling Railroad, 1880s
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Simla Little England in the mountains of
India
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Procession of the Rajahs,New Delhi, 1902
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Victoria Station, Bombay
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Chartered Bank of Calcutta,
1915
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Theosophical Library Madras, 1913
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What were the BENEFITS of British rule in India??
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What were the majorLIMITATIONS of British rule
in India??
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The Rise of Indian Nationalism
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the Indian National Congress

• 1885 ? The Indian National Congress
  was founded in Bombay.
• swaraj ? independence. the goal of the
  movement.

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the Muslim League

• 1905 ? partition of Bengal based on
  religions and languages.
• 1906 ? creation of the Muslim
  League.

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Mohammed Ali Jinnah
1876 - 1948
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Young Mohandas K. Gandhi,
1876
1869 - 1948
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Gandhi with the londonvegetarian society, 1890
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Gandhi as a Young Barrister in Natal
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Gandhi as a Lawyer in Johannesburg, So. Africa
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Gandhi and His Wife, Kasturba, 1915
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Amritsar Massacre, 1919
379 dead over 1200 wounded!
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What Happened?

• The British General in charge of the area feared
  an Indian Rebellion
• He banned all gatherings of Indian People
• Upon hearing that thousands of women, children,
  and others had gathered in a garden in town,
  British soldiers were sent in and they opened
  fire in defenseless citizens

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Salt March, 1930
MakingSalt
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Satyagraha

• Peaceful Civil Disobedience
• Breaking the law to make a peaceful demonstration
  of resistance

• Salt March to protest ban on making salt
• Making Yarn, refusal to buy British made
  materials
• Speaking to Members of Parliament about
  Independence
• Protests, Hunger Strikes

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Gandhi spinning cloth
Indian weaving was ruined by the competition of
British machine-made textiles!
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Gandhi and His Grandaughters, 1947
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The End of the Raj August 15, 1947
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Partition!
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Legacy!

• India has been Independent since 1947
• Although India and Its neighbor Pakistan fight
  over cultural/religious differences, India has
  managed to grow economically
• India today struggles with poverty, pollution,
  maintaining its cultural traditions in a modern
  world

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Gandhi is Killed

• Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu radical because
  Gandhi had tried to maintain peace an cooperation
  between the Muslim League and the Hindu
  nationalist movement