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The British in India

Guided reading q & a

Mr. Knoblauch

Social Studies

Council Rock High School South Slide2

1. What military technologies did the Industrial Revolution provide to Europeans?

1. Steam powered boats2. Repeating Rifles

3. Machine Guns4. Exploding Shells Slide3

2. How did internal problems in Asian empires contribute to the success of European imperialism?

Internal problems weakened Asian Empires so they could only offer limited resistance to European armies

When the Mughal Empire remained strong in India, the British East India Company’s activity was limited to coastal trading cities.

However, when the empire began to break apart into smaller states by the mid 1700’s, the company saw an opportunity to take over more Indian land.Slide4

The British east India Company

Early British Imperialism was not carried out by the government but by a trading company, the

British East India Company. Created to control trade between Britain, India, and East Asia, the company soon became embroiled in

Indian politics.

By 1800, it had come to rule much of India in the name of

Great Britain.Slide5

The British east India Company

Once in control, the company made changes in Indian society, including…A new education system

The English language New British laws that banned certain Indian native customs, including Hindu religious traditions

Christian Missionaries Slide6

3. What was the Sepoy Mutiny?

Muslim and Hindu soldiers refused to use a rifle that had a cartridge greased with animal fat. They were punished leading to mutiny.

Sepoy: An Indian soldier fighting for Great Britain. Slide7

Sepoy mutiny

The greased cartridges had to be bitten off before use, and the manufacturers had supplied a fat

from beef and pork, repulsive to both

Hindus

and

Muslims

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What's pork got to do with it?

1. Cows are sacred in Hinduism- “Considered the Symbol

of Life” and should never be killed 2. To Muslims,

since pigs

are cloven footed animals that walk around in and eat their own feces…

Pork

is described as “unclean” and therefore unfit for human consumption along with other types of meat, such as carrion, the carcass of dead animals Slide9
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The Story of India: Episode 6-Freedom:

BBC Documentary

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4. How did Britain gain control over most of India by 1858?

British India in 1858: Slide13

4. How did Britain gain control over most of India by 1858?

1. By placing allies on the thrones of Indian states, and through a series of wars against the most powerful kingdoms in India.

2. Advances in military technology Slide14

5. What was the Raj?

The Age of British Rule in India See textbook* Slide15

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. How did the swadeshi movement lead to the creation of the Muslim league?

Because the boycotts from this movement seemed to protect the rights of Hindus at the expense of Muslims.

Muslim League is created to protect the rights of Indian

Muslims Slide16

The swadeshi movement

Part

of the Indian independence movement, An

economic strategy aimed at removing the British Empire from power and improving economic conditions in India by following the principles of swadeshi (self-sufficiency)which had some success.

Strategies

of the Swadeshi movement involved boycotting British products and the revival of domestic products and production processes.Slide17

Muslim League:

Political

party established in the early years of the 20th century in the British Indian Empire. Its

strong advocacy for the establishment of a separate Muslim-majority

nation-state eventually leads to the creation of

Pakistan

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The league’s success contributed to

the partition of India in 1947 by the British Empire