The Discovery of India

“The Inconvenient Indian” speaks to a general audience and particularly to US and Canada. The book is organized into chapters and each chapter refers to a variety of themes. Some of these themes are history, culture, politics, and laws. By incorporating all these themes,

It became evident that the British could maintain the empire only at enormous cost. At the end of the Second World War, they saw the writing on the wall, and initiated a number of constitutional moves to effect the transfer of power to the sovereign State of India. For the first and perhaps the only time in history, the power of a mighty global empire 'on which the sun never set', had been challenged and overcome by the moral might of a people armed only with ideals and courage.

In Jawaharlal Nehru: Marxism, Capitalism and India’s Future (1941) the prime minister talks about how he grew addicted to political matters of india and western countries.

Unfortunately many women antislavery advocates were denied a platform to speak on by male abolitionists which prompted them to start a campaign for women’s rights. Also, there was a “similarity” in the abuse a free and enslaved women received. Female abolitionists complained that gender roles caused the “domestic slavery of women” because women did not have any rights in marriage and no individuality which is what they compared to enslave women being assaulted on by their owners. The women used the same arguments regarding rights and equality in abolitionist movement into their own women 's’ rights movements.

Britain had taken an economic interest of India long ago in the 1600’s. India had quickly become the “Jewel of the Crown.” However as time went on, the British’s interest had developed India into a target for imperialism. In 1757, the British empire had won their battle and took control. The Englishmen had taken India’s power, caused them poverty, killed their environment, drove them into starvation, increased death rates, and wasted their time with ineffective education.

She told society to wake up and “free” from men’s oppression. She was fighting to get the rightfully female rights, following the individual liberties arguments that prevailed during this time period. A shift was conceived, from the traditional authority to the desire of gender

If NOW grew out of resurgence of middle class feminism, a different female revolt was brewing with the civil rights and student movements. As in the days of abolitionism, young women who had embraced an ideology of social equality and personal freedom and learned methods of political organizing encountered inequality and sexual exploitation. The women’s liberation movement inspired major expansions of the idea of freedom by insisting that it should be applied to the most intimate realms of life.

Many people believe that in the 1940’s most of India’s problems involving independence was to do with divisions within India rather than British imperialism. In this essay I will be looking at both points of view and finally giving my opinion. I will be using three sources also to help me show both sides of the story. I will also be using my further knowledge to add a wider range of knowledge.

Exploration of the “New World” and the Indian Territory can be summed down to one major component, greed. Greed for power. Greed for gold. Greed for pocket lining commerce. Greed for allies. Greed for more souls to serve the Christian God. Greed for more land. Greed to protect what they have conquered. All different, but all from the same root. The Indian Territory is touched by all forms of this greed, and the approach maybe different but both brought fundamental change to the territory. While their contact with the tribes in the area is harmful, it also changes the interaction between the tribes as well. These contacts brought powerful warfare weapons, horses (Spanish) and guns (French). The

Gandhi was an important leader in India and his goal was to get rid of the British from his country. He wanted his followers to protest

In 1903, Emmeline created a women’s social and political union(WSPU) that helped to inspire individuals in fighting for women’s rights. Their slogan “deeds not words” and name of this union was designed in order to emphasize it’s democracy (“The Women’s Social and Political Union”). This WSPU was composed of women from all different races, social classes and ethnicities from working to royal rank females. These women were willing to take part in drastic actions to fight for the fair rights they believed in. These members of this union worked together by disrupting parliament speeches as well as resorting to militant tactics to further their cause. Women from the WSPU resisted the government which accepted them to have courage and bravery as they were working against their body of nation. These women demanded political equal rights and equal responsibilities with men in society towards the government. To increase people’s awareness, they held street meetings and distributed suffrage literature (Rume, 1). These awareness movements, helped make the WSPU became the first and largest militant group that helped challenge the government. The WSPU tactics and ideas on the suffrage movement helped challenge women’s social inequality which opened eyes for females to see how unfair the life they were living (Steven 194-198).

Aroused by the massacre of Amritsar in 1919, Gandhi devoted his life to gaining India’s independence from Great Britain. As the dominant figure used his persuasive philosophy of non-violent confrontation, he inspired political activists with many persuasions throughout the world (Andrews 23). Not only was Mahatma Gandhi a great peacemaker, but also his work to achieve freedom and equality for all people was greatly acknowledged. Gandhi’s unconventional style of leadership gained him the love of a country and eventually enabled him to lead the independence movement in India.

1919 at Amritsar when the British military massacred more than one thousand people Gandhi called his people to stay calm they obeyed him, he called for everyone to burn foreign-made cloth and start wearing nothing but homespun material millions of people in Indian obeyed him he decides that a march to the sea to protest the salt act would be their rallying point for civil disobedience against the British they obeyed him and follow him to two hundred miles to the city of Dandi, where they were arrested by representatives of British government.

The history of the nation of India is a long and interesting one but most westernizes lack any true understanding of it. Like any long standing culture there have been good and bad periods in their history but one period has been identified as the "Golden Age of India (Dehejia, 1993)." This period, which lasted over a hundred years (322 BCE 185 BCE), began when an exiled general by the name of Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the reigning king Dhana Nanda. Once Chandragupta Maurya had established his new government in the Eastern area of India he began expanding his power westward across Central and Western India and, in the process, the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism also began to spread throughout India (Avari, 2007).

The colonization of India and the immense transfer of wealth that moved from the latter to Britain were vital to the success of the British Empire. In fact, the Viceroy of British India in 1894 called India “the pivot of our Empire …” I examine the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the subcontinent. Besides highlighting the fact that without cheap labor and raw materials from India, the modernization of Britain during this era would have been highly unlikely, I will show how colonial policy led to the privation and death of millions of natives. I conclude that while India undoubtedly benefited from British colonial rule, the negatives for the subject population far outweighed the positives.