PPT-INDIA Chapter 13 THE MAKING OF THE MODERN INDIAN STATE

Politics in Action Anticorruption movement Copyright 2016 Cengage Learning All rights reserved 2 Section 1 THE MAKING OF THE MODERN INDIAN STATE Geographic Setting Subcontinent of Asia. PUBLICATIONS. India Competitiveness Report. State Competitiveness Report. Liveability Report. Individual State Reports. India City Competitiveness Report. Sustainable Competitiveness Report. Industry Competitiveness Report. 1. Period 3. : Regional and Trans-regional Interactions, c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450. India After the Fall of the Gupta Dynasty. Invasion of White Huns from central Asia beginning 451 C.E.. Gupta state collapsed mid-sixth century. Gandhi, INC, Muslim League, British and the Indian people. Partition : Aug 14-15 1947. WHY study partition? . Because it shapes politics, state, and society of contemporary India. WHAT was it?. Numbers. Questions Sections 1 and 2.  . 1. How were the British East India Company and the British Crown able to take economic . . . and political control of India after the . Munghal. Empire’s decline?. . TRANSITION OF INDIA . FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN PERIOD UNDER . THE RULE OF . EAST INDIA COMPANY. The medieval period saw the disintegration of the . Mughal. Empire after the death of Aurangzeb.. India in eighteenth century. * On . 3 September, 1939, Viceroy Lord . Linlithgow . declares that as Britain is at . war against . Germany, so too is . India.. * In . protest to this British “high-handedness. ”, . the Congress ministries in the Indian provinces . Buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama. , c. 563-483 BCE. Encountered age, sickness, death, then monastic life. Abandoned comfortable life to become a monk. Siddhartha’s Search for Enlightenment. Practiced intense meditation, extreme asceticism. II. ‘Maoist/. Naxalite. uprising in India’. Harinda Vidanage PhD. Naxalites. The Maoist movement, also called the . Naxalite. movement, after . Naxalbari. . the name . of a rural town where a 1967 peasant uprising ignited this tendency . 1500 B.C.E.-1025 C.E.. The Thousand Pillared Hall . in the . Temple . of . Minakshi. at Madurai. At the annual . Chittarai. Festival. , the citizens of this city in south India celebrate the wedding of their local patron goddess, . Vedic India, Hinduism, and the formation of the core Indian culture. India Topography. Khyber Pass. Deccan Plateau. Centrally located for trade. Indian Ocean & Silk Road. Himalayas insulate India from China. HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA BA-III SEMESTER 1. Foundation of British Rule The English came to India as a trading company and their main aim was commercial expansion and to achieve financial benefits. But, due to weak Political condition, mutual conflicts among the rulers, wars of succession; downfall of the Indus Valley Civilization circa 2600BCE-1900 BCE. Political – city state governed by kings. Economic- Trade with Mesopotamia; agricultural; cotton and food crops; industry= textiles; some merchants, mostly farmers; urbanized- large cities (Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro). 4/30/2014. 1. 1. Association of Yale Alumni. Shyam Sunder, Yale School of Management. 4/30/2014. 2. India in the World. 4/30/2014. 3. India: Geography. 4/30/2014. 4. Mohen-jodaro (circa 2,500 BC). India: History. B.A 2. nd. Semester (CBCS). General Course. By T. R. . Baruah. Political Science is a Social Science and it is a Progressive science. There are different methods and approaches for studying the subject. Different methods and Approaches are used...