Indian American

The Republic of India perpetuates an apprehension of threats on a daily basis. Neighboring or nearby countries, such as: China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran, all pose deliberate peril to the economy, political stability, and military focal point of this rising world power. Amid constant global struggles for many nations to remain buoyant, India’s economy and infrastructure have shown a consistent, yet dramatic increase of substantial margins annually. India occupies a great dynamism that…

automobile and indoor swimming pool in Allahabad, India. Money would not be able to buy their freedom from the British control (Willcoxen- 13, 14). On April 13, 1919, the British killed 375 and wounded 1,200 Indians in under 15 minutes. After the mass killing, the Nehru family was devoted to the Indian Freedom Movement. Mohandas Gandhi was the leader of the movement, he wanted to fight for the freedom of India without violence…

India Trading Company already had many factories around India trading things such as cotton, silk, indigo, etc. When Britain passed the Charter of Renewel, the trading company really had the power to imperialize the country. From this, they recruited Indian soldier known as Sepoys to work in there militias, and began to take over the country with the Battle of Plassay and Buxar. In 1757, britian established rule in India under the East India Trading Company. They had a monopoly on all the trade…

laws which Britain controlled, which were many negative effects of British imperialism in India. Britain disrespected India culture in a number of ways. For example, Sati was when the wife burns herself after their husband dies. Britain also forced Indian soldiers to use pork fat as ammunition which…

had been torn from Indians and they were treated as inferior to the British. They were patronized and dehumanized by Europeans. As imperialism and colonialism spread throughout the country, the colonizers and India’s people viewed imperialism and colonization in a different manner as both positive and negative effects were present. European imperialism, however, had a primarily…

The man of nonviolent resistance, Mohandas K. Gandhi once said “‘Civil disobedience, is the inherent right of a citizen.... Above all, [it] must have no ill will or hatred behind it” (Contemporary Heroes and Heroines). Meaning it is one’s free will that makes them able to be civil disobedient. This is shown through the character Antigone in the play Antigone by Sophocles. Also through one of history’s most influential people Mohandas K. Gandhi of India. His civil disobedience is shown through a…

Mohandas K. Gandhi, later known as Mahatma Gandhi was the well-known leader of the Indian independent movement in British-rule India who used non-violence civil disobedience that inspired civil right and freedom across the world. Even though Gandhi is known around the world, but does the world know the personality of young Gandhi to the civil rights activist Mahatma Gandhi. In this paper, the reader will understand Gandhi’s personality as a child with the help of neo-analytical theory, to…

The songs I choose are Drupad Indian music; Georgian chanting; troubadour music; Handel: Messiah, Hallejuah Chorus; Bob Dylan, Like The Rolling Stone; Glass: koyaanisqatsi section and John Luther Adams: The Light that fills the world The Dhrupad music is chanting Vedic hymns and mantras. In the background there is string instrument playing in lower sound than the chanting completing it. It can be used as prayer, meditation and yoga. The Georgian Chant is liturgical music chanted in the church…

provided the foundation for a parliamentary system in India, which soon become a means in which Indian nationalism arose and overthrew the occupiers through democratization and popular support. However, over the course of Indian independence in the middle to latter 20th century, many countries in the first and second world did not believe that India could achieve successes as a democracy. The formation of the Indian Independence Act 1947 and the eventual liberation from the British Raj resulted…

Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement, saw nonviolence as an “end in itself” where one is able to see the true nature of things. Similarly, Albert Schweitzer, a Christian missionary, saw the nonhuman world as sacred and held a deep respect for all life. My paper will take a comparative look at both men and their practice of non-violence in ways that promote oneness between humans and nonhumans. I will also take a comparative look at the two men and their differing rationale…