Peasant movement and agrarian revolts were a significant feature of the anti-British Struggle in India. They often brought out the popular resentment against exploitation by the British rulers and the land owners had contributed to the g... R Mahananda - 《Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Rese...
A major revolt against the English East India Company was the Revolt of I857, which is popularly known as the First War of Independence. However, most of these revolts were unsuccessful and failed to overpower British rule. Learn more:Popular Uprisings and Revolts against the British 5. Soci...
In addition to the revolts of these freedom fighters, World War II tipped the odds in our favour by causing significant damage to the British forces, leaving them unable to rule over India. Lord Mountbatten was eventually given power by the British Parliament to transfer power by June 30, 19...
desperate revolts in the villages were bloodily suppressed by the army and police, and the country sank into chaos, starvation and misery… The object of destroying the peasants’ independence…was to create a population of slaves, the benefit of whose labour would accrue to industry. The ...
The second phase of Indian cultural history is dominated by the two great revolts against the Vedic culture by the two streams of Shramana culture: Jainism and Buddhism. In fact the seeds of these revolts can be seen in the Upanishads themselves. Indian soil and its spiritual roots could ...
*Anne Salmond, 'Tute: The Impact of Polynesia on Captain Cook', in G. Williams ed.,Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments(2004), pp. 77–93. *Gananath Obeyesekere, ‘British Cannibals’: Contemplation of an Event in the Death and Resurrection of James Cook, Explorer.’Critical Inqui...
These small revolts took shape of a national movement and emerged in the form of the revolt of 1857 The greatest and the most widespread armed uprising which shook the foundations of the British rule in India was the Revolt Of 1857.The accumulating hatred against British rule which had ...
India in 1750 – Decline of the Mughal Empire, Rule of Later Mughals, and Emergence of Successor States The British Expansion in India – East India Company, Presidencies, Governor-generals, and Battles The Changes introduced by the British in India Popular Uprisings and Revolts against the Bri...
In 1900 the slogan of the Boxer Revolts was “Protect the country, destroy the foreigner” and catholic churches and European settlers and priests were specifically targeted. The Communists have not discriminated in repression of religious belief and practice ~ monasteries, mosques, churches have all...
In 1900 the slogan of the Boxer Revolts was “Protect the country, destroy the foreigner” and catholic churches and European settlers and priests were specifically targeted. The Communists have not discriminated in repression of religious belief and practice ~ monasteries, mosques, churches have all...