British Raj

Chapter III A Name without a Face Geeta Abraham Jose’s By The River Pampa I Stood (Time - Early part of the twentieth century) Keralam (the State of Kerala was formed in September 1956) became the site of progressive ideals as early as the nineteenth century with the arrival of missionaries from England and other parts of Europe to Malabar, Kochi and Tiruvitamkoor. Missionaries criticized various practices like untouchability, unapproachability, sexual immorality, hierarchies based on caste,…

A Dalit writer and activist, Kancha Ilaiah, is issued a "fatwa' for writing about centuries of upper caste atrocities committed against the Dalits, in his book, Post- Hindu India: Discourse on Dalit Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution (2009), and another book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015) by an Adivasi writer, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, is banned by Jharkhand state government on the charge of 'misrepresenting" the Adivasi, indigenous, people. Indian Independence "liberated" the…

Context: (1947-1971) One day before the creation of Pakistan the Constitute assembly was established under the Indian independence act and was given a machinery by British government for transferring power to Pakistan, built up the constitution, East Pakistanis was equally featured as west Pakistanis in this assembly. Communal discrimination was experienced by East Pakistan so they considered themselves as more pro Pakistan as compare to West Pakistan. This can be a reason that Pakistan went…

Moving on to the Mughal Empire, which was located in modern-day India from about 1526 to 1857. The Mughals had, as expected, a very strong military; and like the other Gunpowder Empires, they used gunpowder as a way to further this. However, they used it in a way that the other empires did not: rockets. Although these were essentially just arrows that packed a little bit more of a punch, they were undoubtedly an upgrade from standard arrows. As well as this, the Mughals produced very…

once created. Throughout his beloved speech, Gandhi established many responses to the British government for the freedom that India deserves. Gandhi quickly became a spiritual and political leader in the late 20th century. He then expanded and supported his own political party of the nonviolence movement that many Indians participated in. His movement was strongly affected by the British government, since the British was upset on India’s political right. Many Indians supported Gandhi throughout…

In Robinson’s “The British Empire and Muslim Identity in South Asia”, Robinson attempts to explain the rise in Muslim identity during British rule. He begins his argument by stating that Muslim identity did not have a significant role in identifying people. He argues that ancestral roots, family, and place of settlement all were larger sources of identity than religion. By making these statements, Robinson lays the groundwork to show the importance of the rise in a religion centered identity. In…

Further trouble occurred under the viceroy D. Constantino de Braganca. The trouble occurred in 1559 due to religious intolerance of the Portuguese priests in the nearby San Thome. These priests before rising an alter to offer their sacrifices to Almighty God, destroy the Hindu temple near the village of San Thome. These angered the Brahmins who complained to their king Aravidu Ramaraja to give justice to his subjects. Subsequently, the king besieged San Thome. However, Meersman argued that the…

In accordance with the above covenant, Islam Khan confirmed Raja Pratapaditya in all his possessions and granted to him the revenue of the districts of Sripur and Bikrampur in lieu of his allowance’ (ibid.: 28-29). Again, another set of gifts were bestowed upon the Raja which included ‘a khilat, a sword, a bejeweled sword belt, a bejeweled camphor-stand, five high bred Iraqi and Turkish horses, one male elephant, two female elephants, and an imperial kettle drum’ (ibid.). But the Raja did not…

period of Hindu and Muslims unity as they both fight against the British. Gandhi started Non cooperative Movement against British Black laws and Muslims started their Khilafat movement because of their sentiments towards Turkish Muslims. They Both put their movement by their own way against british. Reasons Of Khilafat Movement: Khilafat Movement was a religio-political Movement launched by the Muslims from the British India to the retention from the Ottoman Caliphate or even…

Newspapers kept up their interest in the welfare of Indians in British colonies. The Abhyudaya asked Indians living abroad to return to India, it opined that, “This will raise their status in the eyes of foreigners and will also enable the people of India to develop the vast resources of the country.” The nationalist movement was concerned both with entering colonial institutions, gradually occupying the state in order to change it from within, and with autonomous activism, mobilizing an…