INDIA ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE

By james.bambrough

  • FIRST EAST INDIA COMPANY EXPIDITION LANDS IN THE SPICE ISLANDS

  • BRITISH NAVY DEFEAT PORTUGUESE AT SPICE ISLANDS

  • BRITISH NEGOTIATE RIGHTS TO BUILD FACTORIES ACROSS INDIA

    SIR THOMAS ROE
    TOOK 3 YEARS

  • BRITISH SHIP OWNERS HAD RIGHT TO DEMAND NAVY PROTECTION

    1ST MILITARY INVOLVEMENT WITH THE COMPANY
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    FIRST ANGLO-DUTCH WAR

  • BRITISH NAVY DEFEAT DUTCH NAVY

    DUTCH NAVY WERE MAIN RIVALS FOR GLOBAL TRADE OF GOODS

  • KING ACQUIRES PORT OF BOMBAY

    PORTRUGESE PRINCES GIFTS BOBMAY TO KING AS WEDDING GIFT

  • EAST INDIA COMPANY RENT BOMBAY PORT

    RENTED FROM KING

  • FOUNDATION OF CALCUTTA

    FORTIFIED BRITISH FACTORY AT GANGES DELTA
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    WAR OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION

    PART OF BATTLE FOR INDIA VS FRANCE
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    UNOFFICIAL WAR IN INDIA

    PART OF BATTLE FOR INDIA VS FRANCE
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    SEVEN YEAR WARS

    PART OF BATTLE FOR INDIA VS FRANCE
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    ROBERT CLIVE GOVERNOR OF BENGAL

    MILITARY GENIUS
    REASON BRITISH DOMINATED INDIA
    CLIVE OF INDIA
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    ROBERT CLIVE GOVERNOR OF BENGAL 2ND TERM

    MILITARY GENIUS
    REASON BRITISH DOMINATED INDIA
    CLIVE OF INDIA

  • COMPANY HAS TO BORROW £1.4M FROM TREASURY

  • JUDICATURE ACT

    SET UP A SUPREME COURT IN CALCUTTA USING BRITISH JUDGES
    DECIDED IF PEOPLE COULD APPEAL TO LONDON

  • REGULATING ACT

    ESTABLISH GOVT. RIGHT TO OVERSEE AND REGULATE INDIAN AFFAIRS
    MADE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF BENGAL MOST IMPORTANT
    ADVISED BY SUPREME COUNCIL OF CROWN APPOINTEES

  • INDIA ACT

    INDIA NOW UNDER DUAL CONTROL
    - BOARD OF CONTROL IN LONDON AND COMPANIES BOARD OF DIRECTORS HEADED BY SEC OF STATE

  • BRITISH DOMINANCE IN INDIA

    BRITIAIN DEFEATED FRENCH, PORTUGUESE AND DUTCH IN INDIA
    VICTORY WON BY EAST INDIA COMPANY
    DUE TO SUPREME NAVY, BRITISH GOVT. SUPPORT AND ALLIANCES WITH LOCAL RULERS

  • COMPANIES DEBTS - £40m

  • BATTLE OF WATERLOO

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    1ST BURMA WAR

  • COMAPANY BANNED PRACTISE OF SUTTEE

    BURNING OF HINDU WIDOW AT FUNERAL OF DEAD HUSBAND
    INTEFERING WITH HINDU CUSTOMS

  • COMPANY SUPRESSED THUGEE

    BANDS OF ROBBERS WHO STRANGLED VICTIMS AS SACRIFICES TO GODDESS KALI
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    1ST AFGHAN WAR

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    1ST SIKH WAR

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    2ND SIKH WAR

    ANNEXATION OF ALL THE PUNJAB
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    2ND BURMA WAR

    ANNEXATION OF BURMA

  • PRINCES CONTROL 30% OF SUBCONTINENT

  • GENERAL SERVICE ENLISTMENT ACT

    ALL MEMBERS OF INDIAN ARMY HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO CROSS THE SEA TO FIGHT
    THIS WENT AGAINST INDIAN BELIEFS

  • COMPANY RULED 2/3 OF INDIA

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    INDIAN MUTINY

    CAUSES
    - GREASED CARTRIDGES
    - GENERAL SERVICE ENLISTMENT ACT
    - ANNEXING PRINCLEY STATES WITHOUT AN HEIR
    EVENTS
    - REVOLUTIONARIES HELD DELHI
    - BRITISH MASSACRE AT KANPUR
    - BRITISH REVENGE REPRISALS
    CONSEQUENCES
    - REORGANISATION OF COMMAND OF INDIA
    - INDIANS NOT ALLOWED TO WORK ARTILLERY
    - FAVOURED RELIGIONS
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    THE RAJ

  • INDIAN COUNCILS ACT

    REORGANISED VICEROYS COUNCILS
    ALLOWED PROVINCIAL COUNCILS

  • ILBERT BILL

    ALLOW SENIOR INDIAN MAGISTRATES TO PRESIDE OVER CASES INVOLVING BRITISH SUBJECTS IN INDIA

  • INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS FOUNDED

    FIRST EVER SESSION HELD AT BOMBAY

  • CONGRESS CONFERENCE 1892

    MUSLIM - 14.6%
    HINDU - 82.4%
    OTHER - 3%

  • CONGRESS CONFERNCE 1896

    MUSLIM - 6.9%
    HINDU - 90.4%
    OTHER - 2.7%
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    VICEORY CURZON

    HEADSTRONG
    IMPERIALIST
    WENT AGAINST ADVISORS ON PARTITION OF BENGAL
    DRIVEN
    TRAVLLED INDIA TO BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO CULTURE

  • CONGRESS CONFERENCE 1900

    MUSLIM - 9.9%
    HINDU - 82%
    OTHER - 8.1%

  • CONGRESS CONFERENCE 1905

    MUSLIM - 2.6%
    HINDU - 93.1%
    OTHER - 4.3%

  • PARTITION OF BENGAL

    SEPERATED BENGAL INTO EAST AND WEST
    MUSLIM DOMINATED EAST
    HINDU DOMINATED WEST
    HINDUS COMPALINED AS GONE FROM MAJORITY TO MINORITY

  • MUSLIM LEAGUE FORMED

    MEETING WITH VICEROY
    MUSLIMS RECOGNISED AS SEPERATE FROM CONGRESS
    ML AIM TO MEET VICEROY ANNUALLY

  • CONGRESS CONFERENCE 1909

    MUSLIM - 2.1%
    HINDU - 95.5%
    OTHER - 2.4%
    LAHORE

  • VICEROY ASSASINATION ATTEMPT

    HOMEMADE BOMB THROWN AT VICEROYS TRANSPORT
    ESCAPED WITH FLESH WOUNDS
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    WW1

    £146M CONTRIBUTED TO WAR EFFORT BY INDIA
    827,000 COMBATANTS ENLISTED
    64,500 INDIAN SOLDIER CASUALTIES
    MARCH 1915 NO BRITISH BATTALIONS IN INDIA

  • 827,000 INDIANS ENLISTED IN COMBAT

  • MUTINY IN MEERUT

    36 MILES FROM DELHI