1. TODAY: PARTITION ON THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT SOUTH ASIA

5. Who’s in charge? 1757-1858 1858-1947 – British Raj

6. Who’s in charge? 1757-1858 – East India Company 1858-1947 – British Raj

7. (EXTRA INFO ABOUT THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY) “After the mid-18th century the cotton-goods trade declined, while tea became an important import from China. Beginning in the early 19th century, the company financed the tea trade with illegal opium exports to China. Chinese opposition to that trade precipitated the first Opium War (1839–42), which resulted in a Chinese defeat and the expansion of British trading privileges” - from Encylopaedia BrittanicaChinaopiumOpium War 1 st Opium War = British get control of HONG KONG

8. ARE ALL LEGACIES OF COLONIALISM BAD?

10. GANDHI 2 goals, 1 method FREE INDIA NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE UNITED INDIA

11. GANDHI

15. 1947 - PARTITION

16. Mass migration & conflict post-partition

17. 14,000,000 DISPLACED “Never before in recorded history or since have so many people been forced to leave their communities in such a short amount of time.” 200,000 to 2,000,000 KILLED 75,000 WOMEN WERE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE

19. Did most of the refugees move to cities or to rural areas? What problems might this create?

20. IMAGINE IF YOU WORKED FOR THE GOVERNMENT… WHAT NOW?

21. WEST & EAST PAKISTAN ONE COUNTRY: 2 PARTS (WHAT DID THEY HAVE IN COMMON? NOT IN COMMON?) (ANY POTENTIAL PROBLEMS?)

22. 1971 - BANGLADESH

23. What four countries have the most Muslims in the world?

24. Pakistan: What is that river?

25. BENGAL: Did/do Muslims live in Calcutta?

26. PUNJAB

27. JAMMU & KASHMIR

29. SOUTH ASIA today

30. SOME FINAL THOUGHTS WHAT ARE BORDERS? WHY DO YOU THINK THAT WAY? WHAT IS ‘HOME?’ WHY DO YOU THINK THAT WAY? HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO HEARING ABOUT LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO DIED? WHY DO YOU RESPOND THAT WAY? Does it relate to this quote? “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic. ”