India Geography of India Location India is located in southern Asia. India borders Pakistan‚ China‚ Nepal‚ and Bangladesh. Pakistan is on the northwest border. China and Nepal are on the northern border. Bangladesh is on the northeastern border. More than half of India is surrounded by the Indian Ocean. Climate‚ Weather‚ and Seasons India has one of the most diverse climates in the world. It has monsoons‚ to very hot weather‚ all the way to the snowy Himalayan Mountains. A monsoon is a wind
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To what extent did Scotland play an important role in the British army during the First World War? Scotland played an important role in the British army right from the start of the war. Straight away there was a lot of support from Scotland as volunteer rates were bigger in proportion to the size of the population than in any other area of the UK. Scots were also highly involved in the battle of Loos which was one of the first main battles of the war. The next battle that involved a large amount
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present state of poverty and misery in Uganda way back to the early days of imposition of British rule who established a dis-articulated economy. Rodney (1981) stresses the negative social‚ economic‚ and environmental impacts of the colonial period when he states: "The only positive development in colonialism was when it ended" (Rodney:1981‚ 261). Rodney (1981) accurately deconstructs the European colonization of Africa as a fundamentally oppressive relationship which fostered African dependency and alienated
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As a newspaper reporter in 1825‚ write an article presenting arguments AGAINST slavery in the British Caribbean under the following headings: i) Economic ii) Religious iii) Humanitarian On every street corner‚ in every household‚ on every tongue and on every wall‚ contradictory views on the system of slavery are being disputed. The public is being bombarded by the economic‚ religious and humanitarian views of slavery. The pressing issue that will be highlighted in today’s article
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increasingly in the 18th century‚ British colonists charged Great Britain with violating the ideals of rule of law‚ self government‚ and the equality of rights. Though this may be true to some extent‚ the colonists themselves violated those very ideals in their treatment of others. When one considers the harsh treatment of blacks‚ Native Americans‚ and even the poorer classes of white settlers in colonial America‚ the protesting colonists seem to be quite hypocritical. If the British monarchy was tyrannical
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‘Lions led by donkeys’ How accurate is this assessment of the British army on the western front in the First World War? The statement ‘lions led by donkeys’ means that there were brave soldiers led by incompetent generals. The statement blames the generals for the number of lives lost‚ although England did eventually win. The statement is therefore untrue as the generals fulfilled their duty as their army and country were on the winning side. There are many reasons why the generals cannot be
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THE PROBLEMS ------------- The islands of the British West Indies saw foreign competition from the slave grown sugar of Louisiana and Cuba. However‚ by the 1860’s‚ due to a loan from the British government‚ Trinidad‚ Antigua‚ Barbados‚ British Guiana and St. Kitts all survived the equalization crisis. The sugar industry in Jamaica‚ on the other hand‚ continued to deteriorate. Jamaica’s figures show a sugar industry‚ which failed to survive. Below is proof of this failure and decrease in sugar
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White conceptions of enslavement by Britain: In the wake of the Stamp Act crisis‚ some Americans began to speak and write about a plot by British leaders to enslave them. In their view‚ the opposite of liberty was slavery‚ the condition of being under someone else’s control. A Maryland writer warned that if the colonies lost “the right of exemption from all taxes without their consent‚” that loss would “deprive them of every privilege distinguishing freemen from slaves.” Slavery was a concept with
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Colonies and the South. They all have very different attitudes but they all came here to America to escape from the oppression back in Europe and to develop a new‚ democratic country. To establish democracy‚ they all have to face the same enemy‚ the British. Modern democracy involves the right to vote‚ check and balance‚ and an elected representative. The main reasons for development of modern democracy in America were religion‚ wealth‚ political freedom‚ pragmatism and secularism. Religion and political
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Indians towards British rule? Sources 10‚ 11 and 12 suggest that the Amritsar Massacre‚ the incident in which British troops under the order of General Dyer fired at a crowd of Indian protesters on the 13th April 1919‚ did create widespread and long-lasting hostility among Indians towards the British. Creating the British government to be portrayed as repressive and irresponsible. However‚ the alternative view presented by the sources is that Indians were not hostile towards the British‚ but they were
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