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British in India (British colonialism (Negative impacts (Breakdown of…

- - - - East India troops defeated and took control over most of India becoming its leading power.
        
        British exploited the potential profit in India
        
        British took raw materials from India
        
        The 300 million Indian people were a good market for British goods often produced from India's materials.
        
        British set up restrictions on India to prevent it from operating on its own.
        
        British goods drove out local producers
  - - - Improved sanitiation
      - More hospitals and schools
      - Increased lifespan
      - Literacy rates imporoved
    - - African products valued internationally
      - India's infrastructure improved even though it mainly affects British business
  - - - Famine because of cash crops
      - Disease
      - Indian people killed while resisting British
    - - Authority figures replaced
      - Homes of Indian people lost
      - Men forced to work for British in cities
      - Indian people's admiration for European life caused identity problems
  - - - Sepoy mutiny, caused by:
        
        Racism
        
        British not considering their religion
        
        Cartridges of the rifles were greased with beef and pork fat.
        
        Hindus who did not eat beef and Muslims who did not eat pork refused the cartridges
        
        The soldiers refused the cretidges wer jailed
        
        Soldiers rebelled and capture Delhi and then spread
        
        Belief British were trying to convert Indians to Christianity
      - British took Direct control over India
        
        Raj (British rule over India Link Title
- - - - British didn't follow through on their promises angering Indians
        
        To fight the angered Indians the British passed Rowlatt acts allowed British government to jail protesters without a trai for two years.
        
        Increased the anger and number of people fighting for Independence.
  - - - Believed that if India did not change it would continue to be controlled by outsiders,
- - - - Division of India proposed by Muslims to separate Hindu and Muslim nations.
        
        The rest of India remained mostly Hindu
        
        Muslims tried to relocate to the area that is now Pakistan
        
        People of different religions killed each other and the whole country was chaotic as everyone moved and things were divided.
        
        The area of Kashmir became a huge area of conflict. The ruler was Hindu but most of the people were Muslims. India and Pakistan fought over the area.
        
        United Nations arranged a ceasefire in 1949
- - - - Boycotts
        
        Did not buy British goods so British lost a lot of money
        
        Refused to attend government school
        
        Refused to pay British taxes
    - - walked 240 miles to the ocean to make their own salt
        
        Planned to march to British salt processing site to shut it down
        
        Officers violently resisted them. The Indians refused to retaliate or defend themselves.
        
        Journalist described the event and earned global support for Gandhi's independence movement.