Because of the rebellion, Britain was forced to take direct control of India, by bringing in their own government officials instead of having some Indian officials who would follow Britain's way of government. Although it was common, not all rebellions were violent. In India the growing tide ...
Jawaharlal Nehru served as the leader of the Indian National Congress while it was negotiating with Great Britain for an independent India. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Dominion of India, as well as the Republic of India....
However, the rise of the anti-slavery lobby in Britain in the late 18th- early 19th century disrupted this coy and mutually-beneficial relationship. There had only been slow progress on the ‘amelioration’ of slavery by actions on the ground in the colonies. From about 1810-1830 there had ...
Sujit Sivasundaram, ‘Ideas of the ‘Native’ in the Rise of British imperial heritage’, in Peter Mandler and Astrid Swenson eds.,From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire. c.1800-1940(2013). On the meeting of epistemologies ‘across the beach’: *Anne Salmond, 'Tu...
How did salutary neglect lead colonists to rebel against Great Britain? How did the Magna Carta influence the American colonists? How has the British Empire affected Britain today? How did the French and Indian War spark Pontiac's Rebellion? How d...
Ten Years of Guerilla-Warfare and Slave Rebellions in Surinam, 1750–1759 The social unrest, characteristic of the history of the West Indian slave colonies, also affected Surinam. While in some territories such as Berbice, Curaao and Domingue it was expressed incidentally and explosively, in Sur...
although, of course, far behind Japan inper capitaterms. China is thus in the position that Russia was in 1914 -- underdeveloped inper capitacomparisons but the fourth largest economy in the world (after the United States, Germany, and Britain) because of its relative development and absolute ...
rebellions whereas the bulk of infantry was Oudh, Hindu, Rajput or Brahman and these actively joined the predominantly Muslim cavalry in the rebellion. Concentration of predominantly Hindu infantry regiments at Delhi and Cawnpore illustrates that till 1857 the Hindus still regarded Muslims as the ...