Indian Rebellion of 1857

Company gained control of India when they were economically interested in trading posts, which then ended up being the world's biggest supplier for raw materials. However, in 1857 when the Sepoy Rebellion occurred, the British took all political, economic, and social control. During British rule, they used their army to control Indians and used their court system to their advantage, leading to unfair laws to grow cash crops and devastate land and the markets, resulting in the death of millions…

eighteenth century “About 30 British portrait painters trained in oil paintings and 28 miniaturists travelled to India in search of commissions” . Simpson started painting in India in the mid-eighteenth century, he came after the revolt of 1857, which was a rebellion in India against the East India Company Simpson was one of them and during his time in India he covered a diverse range of fields, like, culture, religion, monuments and rebels. He made over 250 paintings during his period in India…

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…

India. The British government took complete political control after the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857. British imperialism had a negative impact on India because of the army training techniques that were violent towards Indians, and the new government that the British brought with them. Well it can be noted that The British army technique was taught to the…

Thesis Over a period of one hundred years, the British Empire ruled over the Indian subcontinent in racially discriminatory, enslaving ways. Deprived of self-rule, the Indians formed groups and alliances in order to politically compromise with the British for Indian independence. In his attempts to rid India of British rule, freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose of Calcutta sacrificed his security and ultimately his life, refusing to compromise with the unjust ways of the Raj. A Patriot, and…

eventually benefited the slaves. This term was coined in the United States to empower a larger portion of white men, to stimulate these men to vote and helped to solidify a two political party system in our country. Andrew Jackson needed to displace the Indians to make more land available to expand slavery in the south, while the free blacks, former slaves, and other abolitionists fought for their democratic rights in the north.…

grow from Britain’s imperialism and they took it. India was under the control of many different countries including Britain. Britain had to have some form of contact with India, “[c]omplete British rule over India began during 1857 with the repression of the Sepoy rebellion, by this time the British had already introduced their political, social and economic ideals to India because of the influence of the East India trade company” (Rodríguez, par. 4). According to Professor Peter…

Thesis: The Indian Independence movement and the American revolution have their similarities and differences. Throughout world history there have been many different revolutions, some being successful and some being total failures, the two I am writing on were successful, and they changed the world as we know it forever. American Revolution: The American Revolution was much more than a revolt against British taxes and trade regulations. It marked the first time in history that a people…

intensified, so did the actions of the people. Crime increased dramatically as an act of rebellion towards the British governing system. The colonizers struggled to comprehend the uprising, tending to, “Label its spread as a form of ‘contagion,’ whereas from the peasants’ own viewpoint, it was seen as a collective enterprise, energized by the emulation and solidarity,” (Stewart and Strathern Loc. 1212). In fact, the Indian historian Ramachandra Guha offers that the foreign power developed false…

fellow men, are… most anxious to establish their superiority over women” aptly predicted the reactive creation of a “masculine cultural space” legitimizing and necessitating the domination of Indian men over Indian women in the private sphere (“Maria” 79). The masculine cultural space implicated the Indian man as an active proponent of aesthetic imperial objective “[to] change from the government of families to government through the family” (Heath…