India Under British Rule Flashcards

Global Studies with Davis at Carolina Day School

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Created: 2012-05-07
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Sepoy

British trained Indian soldiers

Raj

Reign/rule

Durbar

Pageants put on by the British viceroys for Indian rulers

Mahatma

Great soul

Maharaja

Ruling princes

Coolie

Unskilled laborers with low wages

Barrister

British Lawyer

Viceroy

'Vice' king

Satyagraha

Nonviolence and 'soul force'

Nehru

INC leader who wanted modern India

Jinnah

Demanded separate Muslim nation Pakistan

Cholera

Disease caused of transportation, sacred rivers and pools, and urbanization

Infrastructure

Canals, harbors, and cities

Provincial

Providence elections

Infanticide

Killing of infants

Reform

To make things better

Partition

Divide up

Bengal (location)

Former capital in India

Pakistan (characteristics)

Muslim country

India (characteristics)

Hindu's live there

Kashmir (location and significance)

City in India, but populated mostly by Muslims

East Pakistan

Bangladesh

know where it is

Muslim country

Near Bengal

What are two incidents Gandhi's most famous for?

250 mile walk to sea to gather salt
fasting to death

British Raj

Balance of combining westernization and modernization with traditions

What were 3 of India's cash crops

Tea, cotton, and coffee

Causes of Sepoy Rebellion

Tension between ethnic groups,
Anger at overseas service
Offenses to Hindus

Two reasons why few Indians were in the ICS (Indian Civil Service)

Racism
Tests were given in England

Who was in the INC (Indian National Congress)?

Elite Indians

All-India Muslim League

League who wanted separation from India because of their religion

Quit India

Campaign Gandhi started to kick British out of India

Indian industrialization (why British prohibited it, and what it represented)

British wanted to reduce the threat to engineers and industries by not letting Indians industrialize, but India went ahead and started a Steel Co. It showed that they could industrialize without Britain, but they weren't allowed to govern without Britain.

Home-rule (What are two things that brought it on?)

Indians helped British in WWI and Millions of Indians died from flu epidemic that spread from Europe

Economic relationship between colony and colonial power (country with empire)

Indians would export raw materials and import finished product from British

Pakistan (origin of name)

Punjab-Afghans-Kashmir-Sind

British East India Company (3 ways it controlled India)

they trained the sepoys
fortified the warehouses
used company men to negotiate with maharajas

Things the British did that made the Indians upset

They made them fight in WWII
Divided Hindus and Muslims
Moved capital from Calcutta to Delhi
They were racist
Divided Bengal into two

Characteristics of Muslims in India

They were lower in the cast system before they converted from Hinduism to Islam

About this deck

By: Mia Trupiano
Created: 2012-05-07
Size: 37 flashcards
Views: 60

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