Cultural Impact Of Decolonization

Decolonization is a goal with a never-ending journey; the world is continuously changing and adapting daily that there is no finality. The process of decolonization and nation building is derived from the civil wars, wars of independence, negotiated independence, and incomplete decolonization (Pollard et al, 2015 pg.734). In the end, decolonization had an impact on all nations socially, economically, and politically. Its factor refers to finance and trade, global migration, new technologies, and cultural influence. Rich countries were able to benefit from new knowledge and technologies; unfortunately, poor countries that were unable to keep up remained underdeveloped (Pollard et al, 2015 pg.774).
Going back to 1857, the first war of independence …show more content…
It’s obvious that Nehru wanted the Muslims to join Hinduism, however, they opposed because they were afraid that the Hindus were trying to take over their freedom and way of life. India then split into India for the Hindus and Pakistan for the Muslims. The Muslim League leader was Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Pollard et al, 2015). He disliked the idea of every other religion besides his own, especially Hinduism. He did not want the Muslims to become slaves of Hindus. Since religion was pretty scattered across India, Jinnah wanted a separation of the country in order for them to practice their full culture and religion. After months of the Muslims rallying for the creation of Pakistan, Nehru came to agreement with Jinnah (Smith). On direct action day, Nehru backed away from his agreement and the Muslims definitely felt betrayed. This led to a huge riot, which resulted in war between both religions. The Muslims used violence to riot against the Hindus (Smith). Throughout these couple days of terror, over 5,000 people have been killed, at lease 20,000 have been seriously injured, and at least 100,000 were left homeless (Smith). The British army had to step in to end this war and decided that maybe it was best for both religious groups to have separate nations. On August 14th, Pakistan became its independent nation and the Hindus from Pakistan moved to India, while the Muslims from India moved to Pakistan (Pollard et al, 2015). The Hindus still forever believed that Muslims were the enemy’s and the hate did not stop. This lead to Gandhi protesting against continuing violence towards the Muslims. This did not make sense and outraged some Hindus, so on January 30th, 1948; Nathuram Godse who was a member of the Hindu paramilitary group assassinated Gandhi