Outline the events of the Sepoy rebellion. Compare and contrast how India was governed before and after 1857. India was once under the British rule in direct or indirect way. After the East India Company was founded in 1600‚ British has spent 250 years taking over the colonies and trade of the Dutch‚ repelled the French‚ and beat back Indian challenges. The Mughal empire was decayed‚ and by 1858 British obtained the vast continent from the Mughal emperor’s dethronement. British
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The British refused to sign the bonds and were forced to withdraw to Macao. On July 12 of 1839 Chinese sailors arrested the British comprador of Carnatic. As a result‚ thirty sailors went on shore to avenge the insult. Once there they became drunk and began fighting with the locals‚ beating a man to death (Hanes 61). Enraged‚ Lin demanded that Elliot hand the culprits over. Elliot refused‚ and
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originated from having begun in 1757. On June 23rd of that year‚ at the Battle of Plassey‚ a small village and mango grove between Calcutta and Murshidabad‚ the forces of the East India Company under Robert Clive defeated the army of Siraj-ud-daulah‚ the Nawab of Bengal. The battle lasted no more than a few hours‚ and indeed the outcome of the battle had been decided long before the soldiers came to the
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A Passage to India Passage to India‚ published in 1924‚ was E. M. Forster’s first novel in fourteen years‚ and the last novel he wrote. Subtle and rich in symbolism‚ the novel works on several levels. On the surface‚ it is about India — which at the time was a colonial possession of Britain — and about the relations between British and Indian people in that country. It is also about the necessity of friendship‚ and about the difficulty of establishing friendship across cultural boundaries. On a
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Satyavrat Nirala Psychosomatic Monster: Jamaal’s Transformation in Omair Ahmad’s “Jimmy the Terrorist.” “Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?” Friedrich Nietzsche1 I am entangled. I reminisced and endeavored myself with a phobic contemplation that is it only my verge? I paused to procure the echo. My inception of hypothesis is soundlessly germinating. What is Psychosomatic? I figured out the meaning relating to‚ involving‚ or concerned with bodily symptoms caused
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Orissa)‚ different dynasties ruled this region i.e. Chedi Kingdom of Kalinga (Orissa)‚ Eastern Ganga dynasty of Orissa‚ Gajapati Kingdom of Orissa‚ Kakatiya‚ and Qutub Shahi empires. Around 1450‚ Appala Raju took over the rule of region under the Nawab of Arcot‚ with Anakapalle as his fortified headquarters. The saga of Anakapalle starts with a historian named "Tallapragada" place and found that Anakapalle. This was proved from the historical evidences found on Bojjana Konda. Satavahanas‚ Vishnukundina
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Services rendered by Shah Wali-Ullah (1703-62) Shah Wali-Ullah was a great Muslim saint of the 18th century. His real name was Qutbud-Din Ahmed but due to his spiritual virtues he was called Wali-ullah. He was born to a noble learned family of Delhi on 21st February 1703. His father Shah Abdur-Rahim was a renowned scholar of that period. Shah Wali-Ullah showed great promise at an early age. By the age of fifteen he had mastered the major branches of Islamic studies.. After the death of his father
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On acquisition from the Nawab of Arcot in 1801‚ the Britishnamed it as Tinnevelly district though their headquarters was first located in Palayamkottai the adjacent town‚ where they had their military headquarters during their operations against the Palayakars. Two reasons may be attributed for naming it after Tirunelveli. One is because‚ it was and is the chief town of the district and the other is that it was already called Tirunelveli Seemai under the Nayaks and Nawabs. Both Tirunelveli and Palayamkottai
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THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE-1857 • During the War of Independence the Governor General was Lord Canning. He had assumed the charge of his office in 1856. • Wajid Ali Shah was the Nawab of Awadh. He was sent on exile to Calcutta and his state was annexed by the British in April 1856. • Three-fourth of the infantry and nearly two-third of the whole Bengal Army was composed of the people from Awadh. • Maulvi Ahmadullah devised the distribution of chapatti scheme during his travels in
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Bleeding Balochistan & Way Forward Paramilitary soldiers stand guard as plumes of smoke rise from a burning fuel tanker after it was attacked in Chaman‚ in Pakistan’s Balochistan province‚ along the Afghan border December 31‚ 2010. – Reuters Photo The Balochistan solution has to be a political one rather than a ‘white-wash’ of replacing the military with a paramilitary force. While the Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Ashfaq Kayani’s announcement to replace PA soldiers with the paramilitary
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