1. Chapter 14, Section 3
British Rule In India

2. India – GB’s best colony

3. India – GB’s best colony!

4. India – GB’s best colony!

5. India – GB’s best colony!

6. Taj Mahal

7. British Rule In India Problems Benefits
Lots of $ being made, but it all went to the British
Local industry ruined
Unemployment
High taxes/loss of land
Degradation/basic freedoms lost (Indians weren’t equal to British, Indian customs ignored)
Benefits
Order/stability
Honest/efficient govt.
Better schools (for upper class)
Railroads, telegraph, postal service

8. The Sepoy Mutiny
British East India Company (BEIC), the main trader, given right to rule colony
Ruled with forts/soldiers from England, but also hired Indian soldiers – “sepoys”
BEIC to start greasing bullets with cow/pig fat (sacred to Hindus/Muslims)

9. The Sepoy Mutiny (cont’d)
1857 = Sepoys refuse, are arrested, then rebel
Atrocities on both sides for about 1 year
Result = BEIC power given to British govt., Queen Victoria now has all the power, Indian nationalism

10. An Indian Nationalist Movement
Again, education assimilation comes back to haunt the mother country
At 1st, they preferred reform to revolution
1885 – Indian National Congress (INC)
They want a say in their government!!
Divided over Hindu/Muslim concerns
Until….

11. The G.W. of India?
A young Hindu returned to his homeland of India from South Africa
He had been born in India in 1869, but went to study law in GB
He represented those who had been racially discriminated against
He wanted independence and equal rights through non-violent resistance
Who is this person???

12. Mohandas Gandhi

13. Quotes from Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Action expresses priorities.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

14. Quotes from Gandhi
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

15. Quotes from Gandhi
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.