1. The British in India
Up to the 1600’s India subcontinent was ruled over by many different groups simultaneously.
The most powerful of the groups were the Mughals.

2. The British Arrive
East India Co. – Wanted to monopolize the spice trade out of India.
E.I.C. negotiate with Mughals for trade ports and build factories out of Bengal in exchange for naval support from Britain.

3. 1760 – 1887 Constant wars in India
British decide only way to stop wars is to take control
British control India by 1818

4. Why India Plantation products Indigo – dye for cloth
Coffee – south America not a big producer yet
Cotton – increased production during US civil war
Opium – traded this highly addictive drug to china for tea which was England’s favorite drink

5. Forming of India and Pakistan Reading

6. Dangerous Borders
Kashmir region

7. Stateless Nations

8. Nation versus Nation-State

9. Nation WHICH ONE IS A NATION? American Persian Canadian British
A culturally distinctive group of people occupying a specific territory and bound together by a sense of unity arising from shared ethnicity beliefs, and customs.
WHICH ONE IS A NATION?
American
Persian
Canadian
British
South African
Japanese
AUSTRALIA
BRAZIL
KURDS
Japanese
Persian
Kurds

10. Nation-state WHICH ONE IS A NATION-STATE? Italy Hawaii Iran Brazil
An ideal form consisting of a homogeneous group of people governed by their own state
WHICH ONE IS A NATION-STATE?
Italy
Hawaii
Iran
Brazil
ICELAND
RWANDA
United States
Japan
Palestinians
Japan
Iran
ICELAND

11. Examples of Nations Nation-states Multi-national states
Japan
Denmark
Multi-national states
China (Tibet)
Stateless nations = A nation within a state w/o a recognized country status
Kurds (in Iraq, Turkey, Iran)
Basques (in Spain, France)
Divided nations
Korea (North and South)

12. Shrinking Nation State

14. Stateless Nation – A nation within a state
Kurds: An ancient group with a distinctive language and culture, and concentrate in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. Smaller numbers live in Syria, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

16. Point of View
Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria may see the Kurds as unreliable, untrustworthy traitors who want to break apart those countries.
The Kurds are a nation – a people with a sense of common ethnicity, history, and purpose. They see their cause as nationalist patriotism.
Neither the UN or any country has taken up their cause and supported the creation of an independent Kurdistan.

17. Where the Kurds Live

18. One View of a Kurdish State

19. The Kurds Reading
Homework – Read “The Kurds are building a Country With Every Victory over ISIS”
Use your Annotation reading Strategy and take and make any note needed in the margins