Indian Mutiny: The Conflict Between East And West

The conflict between East and West is Exists throughout the ages , sometimes restless and sometimes intense, this essay is examine the main elements of the two clashes of culture and ideology and used for promote and justify the reasons of mythologies the Indian mutiny from different points of view. It's never been like other days, it was a special day in memory ,and it was not expected for a real historical event to turn into a myth remember for decades, Indian Mutiny has its results and impact on the Victorians in their own homes ,not only on the British community in India, or even on the Indians themselves ,as the first serious attempt for independence from the British presence or uprising in 1857, as a result of the cultural and intellectual …show more content…
This historical case constitutes an important part of the tale of ‘The Sign of Four’ to Arthur Conan Doyle , these events used the dissatisfaction about the wages, lake of opportunities for advancement between the Bengal crowds , the attempts of missionaries to convert the Indians ,and in addition to the case of paper cartridges for the army issue rifles ,which were coated with animal fat , especially pork lard (forbidden to Muslims) or beef tallow(forbidden to Hindus ),the Indian soldiers would have to bite these paper cartridges to open it before loading their guns ,this was against their religious beliefs, the spread of this incident promote the Indian belief that the British are working as missionaries to convert the local population to Christianity, and that what cause culture clash from the point of view of Doyle in his tale{ Nicola j.Watson and Shafquat Towheed ‘Romantics and Victorians ‘ …show more content…
M. Forster in his novel Commented on what he has seen in India about the impossibility of a particular composition of friendship between the various races and he saw this as a British colony during the British rule of India. https://books.google.jo/books?id=T7V4eGIck3IC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=culture+clash+e.m+forster&source=bl&ots=C3dCuuuER_&sig=nbqD42tctDIW3iJtHW-ud8gGdcE&hl=ar&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMItoOJwNT4xgIViA3bCh3L0gPD#v=onepage&q=culture%20clash%20e.m%20forster&f=false

In conclusion it appears to us a clear divergence in opinions and views on the intellectual and cultural East-West conflict and how the ideological and cultural clashes had been utilized to convert historic event ,the Indian Mutiny ,and transmits it to the myth of the generations till the present days ,and its effect on the Victorians not only in India but also inside their own homes in Britain