Raj Kapoor

At different times in history, individuals have defended human rights using a variety of methods. Their efforts have met with varying degrees of success. One leader was Gandhi. There were many causes for India’s independence movement was when India gained independence from Britain. One was British disrespected indian cultures. They outlawed sati. Which was when a wife burns herself after husband dies. Hindus were upset that this was outlawed. British forced the indian soldiers to use pork fat to

The enduring issue raised by the set of documents is conflict. Conflict is a serious disagreement or an argument. There can be a conflict between individuals, groups or even nations. This enduring issue is important because in these sets of documents it talks about different having different ideas and beliefs and how disagreements arose. For example, Sikhism was based on equality. As the religion, Sikhism extended, the Muslims thought the way Sikhism was spreading was a threat and thought they would

Introduction Soon after World War II, Great Britain withdrew from India after over 200 years, leaving behind chaos and protests. Before this withdrawal, Britain had caused the Indians to have an immense dissatisfaction with their Britain authorities throughout India. In 1857, Indian mutiny was at a high, the mutiny broke out in the Bengal army because of their organized defense system. The alleged reason for the revolt was caused by enfield rifles because the sepoys were ordered to bite off the

goods from the indian colonies. This made India the main trading source for the period of European exploration. In the 18th century France and Britain fought for control of this land, but finally the British empire gained this territory. The British Raj is the time period when the East India Company was transferred to the Crown Queen Victoria making her the Empress of India. In 1900, India became a part of the British Empire,

Knocking the doors to history, the history that takes us to the world of facts, the Partition of India was just an event crushed under the old pages of Indian history. But this event was the greatest man- made catastrophe which not only divided the nation into two parts – the “New India for the Hindus and Pakistan for the Muslims, but also led to the massacre of millions in this forced dislocation. It was considered one of the largest mass migrations in the history of India killing two million people1

A Touch of History English traders repeatedly engaged in conflicts with their Dutch and Portuguese matching part in the Indian Ocean. The company attained a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of Swally in 1612. The company decided to explore the probability of attainment a territorial base in mainland India, with official agreement of both countries, and requested that the Crown launch a political mission. In 1612, James I instructed Sir Thomas Roe to visit the Mughal Emperor Nuruddin

rather than own Indian internal colonialism. From his works he has always tried to educate Indians to forcing their consciousness to think about the social problems that disseminated because of religious beliefs. We can see the India under British raj in his novels but he emphasizes on the decayed Indian society which is more responsible for India’s deterioting societal condition. Anand

By the late 1700s, industrially made goods were gaining popularity in Europe. With all of the factories, the British needed resources to continue making all of the products that were in high demand. In the early 1700s, India’s government was falling apart. With their political vulnerability and great climate for growing crops, India was ideal territory for the British to take advantage of. The East India Company, a British company, took workers and land after victoriously beating India in the Battle

The Revolt of 1857-1858 that happened in India is known also as the Mutiny of Sepoy in Britain and as the First War of Indian Independence among the Indian population. It started as the uprising of the soldiers of the Bengal Presidency Army that aimed to expel the British rule from the territory of India. However, the uprising spread very quickly all over the northern and central regions of India and soon the rebellion by the civilian population started in a significant number of military towns of

Introduction E.M. Forster’s novel ”A Passage to India” is set between the British Raj and the Independence Movement of India. It is set in India, in the early 20th century, when India was still one of the British colonies. With the novel, Forster in a way “challenges” the belief that the British had the right to colonize Indians. One of the main reasons of the British colonization was that the British believed they were superior to those who were poorer than them, and those whose skin was different