The First War of Independence: The Revolt of 1857 *Political Causes:- 1) Lord Dalhousie’s Policy of ‘the Doctrine of Lapse’:-if the ruler of a subordinate state died without a heir ‚ his adopted son was not allowed to occupy the throne and the state was annexed to the British Empire in India. Lord Dalhousie annexed the states of Jhansi‚ Satara and Nagpur. 2) Ill treatment of Nana Sahib and Rani of Jhansi:Baji Rao II: The last Peshwa adopted Nana Sahib as his son who was denied access to the annual
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Cited: 70. Speech to the women ’s section of the Indian Independence League‚ Singapore‚ July 12‚ 1943‚ Selected Speeches of Subhas Chandra Bose‚ pp. 189-192. 71. See: S. K. Bose‚ ed.‚ A Beacon Across Asia (1973)‚ pp. 182‚ 219; H. Toye‚ The Springing Tiger‚ pp. 86‚ 146.; L. Gordon‚ Brothers Against the Raj‚ pp. 497‚ 523‚ 535-36. Bose‚ Mihir‚ The Lost
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high superstitions and much disbelief. Wives were to self-immolate themselves after the death of their husbands. The practice of this widow self-immolation was abolished by the great reformer of Bengal‚ Raja Ram Mohan Roy. With the help of Lord William Bentick‚ the then Governor-General of India‚ Bengal Sati Regulation Act‚ 1829 came into force wherein the practice of Sati or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus was declared illegal and punishable by the Criminal Courts. 2. The Sepoy
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onwards; and current research linking present-day economic outcomes to colonial era choices. In this paper we provide an overview of this literature‚ focusing on the period 1765-1900. In the interest of brevity and coherence we focus two regions‚ Bengal‚ which was first conquered (1757-64)‚ and the Bombay Deccan‚ which was annexed in 1818‚ though we make references to other regions as well. From the very beginning‚ Company rule in India generated an extraordinary amount of documentation. Policy
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Alicia my Story Summary In the memoir “Alicia my Story” written by Alicia Appleman Jurman is an amazing book about how a Jewish girl named Alicia who tries to survive living in a area where the German occupation was. In doing so she saved lives of some of the Jewish people and rebelled against the Germans. Later on she becomes a hero of the holocaust. Alicia lived in the city of Buczacz with her parents and her older brothers Zachary‚ Bunio‚ Moshe‚ and her young brother Herzl. They lived happily
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Cited: Hennessy‚ Peter. Prime Ministers: The Office and its Holders since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge Press‚ 2001. Leonardo‚ Gordon. Review of Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1923–1944. American Historical Review‚ 88.4 (1983): 218 – 230. Picknett‚ Lynn‚ Prince‚ Clive‚ Prior‚ Stephen‚ and Brydon‚ Robert. War of the Windsors: A Century of Unconstitutional Monarchy. Chicago: Mainstream Publishing‚ 2002.
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● ● ● ● ● Most familiar form of rule in the ancient times has been monarchy. The vast majority of people in the past lived under some form of imperial rule. The French Revolution of 1789 introduced the idea of Liberty‚ Equality and Brotherhood. Tom Paine’s pamphlet ‘The Rights of Man’ established the idea that men had basic human rights. In the nineteenth century‚ the British and French empires began to expand rapidly. These two traditional overseas empires developed alongside older imperial powers such
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Adolf Hitler is a well known name‚ he was the dictator who commenced the Holocaust. Flossenbürg was the fourth concentration camp created. The Holocaust itself was from 1933 to 1945 twelve years filled with pain and death. So many lives were lost‚ yet no one stood up to prevent this awful event‚ in history‚ until it was too late to save the millions of lives already lost. The Holocaust will never be forgotten‚ it was a brutal attempt of extermination of a selected human race‚ just because of their
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The First War of Indian Independence or The Great Revolt of 1857: The Indian soldiers in the East India Company’s army rebelled against the British in 1857. The English historians have painted this revolt as a mutiny of the sepoys. But the Indian historians describe it as the First war of Indian Independence. It is also known as the Great Revolt of 1857. Lord Canning was the Governor-General of India at that time. The causes of the Great Revolt were many. They may be classified as political‚ administrative
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Introduction to Philosophy Phil 100 ∙ Spring 2014 Professor Paul Burger Email paul.burger@csulb.edu Office Location MHB 805 Office Hours Tues. & Thurs. 3:30 – 4:30 PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE! 1. Which of the following is not part of Mill’s Principle of Utility? A. Actions are to be judged right or wrong solely in virtue of their consequences and nothing else. B. In assessing the consequences of some act‚ the only thing that matters (from an ethical point of view) is the amount of happiness
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