The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From equal status with men in ancient times[6] through the low points of the medieval period‚ to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers‚ the history of women in India has been eventful. In modern India‚ women have held high offices in India including that of the President‚ Prime Minister‚ Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Leader of the Opposition. As of 2011‚ the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Leader
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1. The Cellular Jail in Port Blair in Andaman must rank as the darkest deed perpetrated by the British Raj‚ along with the massacre at Jalian Wala Bagh in Punjab. The islands of Andaman & Nicobar‚ located in the Bay of Bengal and separated from the Indian mainland by thousands of kilometres of sea all around‚ was used by the British as penal settlement to which they banished thousands of freedom fighters as well as petty criminals. The first lot of 200 sepoys (privates) who participated in Sepoy
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conversation‚ perhaps perceiving that I was at a loss to name the author of “The Windhover‚” he asked if I knew the Indian Shakespeare. Considering the extent to which Shakespeare settled in India from colonial performances in the very early days of the Raj to dominating the Parsi stage early in the nineteenth century to becoming the ensign for mandatory English education after 1835‚ I thought the Indian Shakespeare might as well be Shakespeare. “Kalidasa‚” he said. Since I had demonstrated a profound
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was almost free. Around the time of World War 2‚ Britain asked for the assistance of Indians to fight in the war against Japan. India relented but then talks broke down and India demanded it be free. The Muslim faction of British India (or British Raj)‚ which made up a smaller percentage of British India than Hindus did‚ did not want India to be free‚ since they felt they would be treated like second class citizens. Under British doctrine‚ all natives were treated equal and the Muslims thought they
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rule in India begins. 1835 Institution of British education and other reform measures. 1857-58 Revolt of Indian sepoys (soldiers) against East India Company. 1858 East India Company dissolved; rule of India under the British crown--the British Raj--begins with Government of India Act; formal end of Mughal Empire. 1885 Indian National Congress (Congress) formed. 1905 Partition of Bengal into separate
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Nature of the Colonial State The Political Economy of the Colonial State . Instmments of Control 14.4.1 14.4.2 14.4.3 14.4.4 The Colonial Military Apparatus The Police Organisation The Judiciary and Law The Bureaucracy - The Steel Frame of the Raj 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 Sources of Legitimation Summary Glossary Exercises 14.1 INTRODUCTION The political structure ~ h i c h evolved in India under the British during the initial phase of their rule was civil in nature due to the East India
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Political‚ Economy and British Policy in India” 1978 Cambridge University Press 2010. Bayly‚ C.A. “Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India” 1998 Oxford University Press 2010 James‚ Lawrence “Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India” 1997 Little‚ Brown and Co. 2010 Darwin‚ John “The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970” 2009 Cambridge University Press 2010 Roy‚ Kaushik “The Oxford Campanion to Modern
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does not. This is made clear when he says‚ “All I knew was that I was stuck between my hatred of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited beasts who tried to make my job impossible. With one part of my mind I thought of the British Raj as an unbreakably tyranny‚ as something clamped down‚ in saecula saeculorum‚ upon the will of prostrate peoples; with another part I thought that the greatest joy in the world be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest’s guts”. The point of
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of soldiers and civilians were killed as a result of the many bloodbaths‚ which took place. The rebellion led to the partition of the East India Company. As soon as the rebellion came to a halt‚ the British Government took control over the British Raj and gave it in possession of the British Crown. There were many leading causes for the rebellion‚ which took place in India in 1857. These causes can be divided into three main categories: political‚ social and economic. The British drastically
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Subhas Chandra Bose (About this sound listen (help·info); 23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945 (aged 48)[1]) was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India‚ but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Japan left a troubled legacy.[4][5][6] The honorific Netaji (Hindustani language: "Respected Leader")‚ first applied to Bose in Germany‚ by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials
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