HISTORY SCRIPT
Hello, and welcome to ABC radio 1’s History segment “back to the past” today we will be talking to you about one of the most important events that took place during Britain’s imperialism over India. Let’s go back to the Indian mutiny of 1857 when the Indian people fought for justice and freedom, in their country. India was a country that had a very eventful time, fighting for their independence, and to earn it they literally fought to the death in battle but more about that later, let’s start from the beginning of this fateful mutiny, in 1857.
The British Empire began to take interest in India when the East India Company established trading posts throughout India in the 17th century. You might be wondering who the “East India …show more content…
Disturbances occurred for a year or so and the Indian people eventually became annoyed with the British imperial rule they had to follow. Even though Britain’s harsh ruling, caused devastating deaths, they helped to create a better economy and infrastructure for the struggling country. Everywhere the old Indian aristocracy was being replaced by British officials, to help maintain the law and order in the country (British Imperialism, 2001). The British formed many armies to help keep everything in control, but in the Bengal army there was havoc caused from rumours about, the Enfield rifled musket which had cartridges greased with pig and cow fat, causing offence to Muslim and Hindu soldiers religions. This was the main trigger that opened up the minds of the Indians to see, that the East India Company’s decisions were wrong and biased. This inconsiderate debut, wasn’t the first thing the British were doing to upset them. They were making the sepoys (the Indian troops, who worked for the British Empire) do all the manual labor and the duties, for a very small amount of money (Indian Mutiny, 2014). The British only cared about their fortunate they were earning from their “Crown Jewel”. India was known as the Crown Jewels after the British Empire took over (Crane, 2016). News about the mutiny was continuously spreading throughout India and especially Britain. In Manchester, on June 30th of 1857 there was a large article sent out through the Guardian Newspaper about the event, and the British’s biased opinion about what happened in the mutiny. (30 June 1857: The Indian Mutiny,
Hello, and welcome to ABC radio 1’s History segment “back to the past” today we will be talking to you about one of the most important events that took place during Britain’s imperialism over India. Let’s go back to the Indian mutiny of 1857 when the Indian people fought for justice and freedom, in their country. India was a country that had a very eventful time, fighting for their independence, and to earn it they literally fought to the death in battle but more about that later, let’s start from the beginning of this fateful mutiny, in 1857.
The British Empire began to take interest in India when the East India Company established trading posts throughout India in the 17th century. You might be wondering who the “East India …show more content…
Disturbances occurred for a year or so and the Indian people eventually became annoyed with the British imperial rule they had to follow. Even though Britain’s harsh ruling, caused devastating deaths, they helped to create a better economy and infrastructure for the struggling country. Everywhere the old Indian aristocracy was being replaced by British officials, to help maintain the law and order in the country (British Imperialism, 2001). The British formed many armies to help keep everything in control, but in the Bengal army there was havoc caused from rumours about, the Enfield rifled musket which had cartridges greased with pig and cow fat, causing offence to Muslim and Hindu soldiers religions. This was the main trigger that opened up the minds of the Indians to see, that the East India Company’s decisions were wrong and biased. This inconsiderate debut, wasn’t the first thing the British were doing to upset them. They were making the sepoys (the Indian troops, who worked for the British Empire) do all the manual labor and the duties, for a very small amount of money (Indian Mutiny, 2014). The British only cared about their fortunate they were earning from their “Crown Jewel”. India was known as the Crown Jewels after the British Empire took over (Crane, 2016). News about the mutiny was continuously spreading throughout India and especially Britain. In Manchester, on June 30th of 1857 there was a large article sent out through the Guardian Newspaper about the event, and the British’s biased opinion about what happened in the mutiny. (30 June 1857: The Indian Mutiny,