... as well as the Viceroy and his advisers practically sleepless for two nights. Menon's second crucial intervention was regarding the Princely States. During British rule, the Princely States had entered treaty arrangements with the British under which they accepted the presence of a British Resident in their capital and a ... many lesser, but quite influential, British officials did much to help the League, in some instances without the knowledge of their superiors. Though the majority of British officials favoured the Muslims, by no means all of them favoured partition. Menon has given ...

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... only in the history of the Indian subcontinent, but a signal event in world history. Preceding the partition, India was directly under Crown rule. British rule had been established in eastern India during the mid eighteenth century to gain control of the Indian government which would convey substantial economic advantages ... India in 1858 after the Great Rebellion. The power was then transferred to the British Crown. 1 Since the major challenge to the British rule was from the Muslims, they began a campaign of oppression and ideological warfare against the muslims, and " fanned the fire...

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... well. After these successful invasions, a Turkish general established a new Islamic regional kingdom in what is now Pakistan, imposing a minority rule over Hindu majority in the area. It was called the Delhi sultanate. Although Islam was somewhat enforced in the area for a period of time, Indians could ... specifically ignore foreign rule more easily than other regions, as they were regulated by separate castes. Islamic belief did not ... did not bring permanent political change to India. They did, however, create a new religious minority, and encouraged the hold of Hinduism on the maj...

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... convert to French in order to be considered French. If they were considered French, then they could run for politics and be considered as an equal to a French person. French rule was harsh, and the uncontrollable ambitions aroused in a technically advanced community exercising power over a less advanced society. This was especially true for Algeria. The French had severely underestimated ... the unwillingness of the native population to live under infidel rule. French generals who arrived in Algiers did not anticipate fanatical, unprovoked resistance. They believed that the majority of A...

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... insensitivity to and distance from the peoples of India and their customs created such cynicism with them in their subjects that the end of British rule became necessary and inevitable. However, while the Indian National Congress was calling for Britain to Quit India, the Muslim League, in 1943, ... to assimilation and submergence in Hindu society. Hindu fundamentalists also deepened the chasm between the two nations. They resented the Muslims for their former rule over India. Hindu fundamentalists rallied for a ban on the slaughter of cows, a cheap source of meat for the Muslims. They al...

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... make colonies in other lands and continents. Among them was Britain, which held most of its colonies in Asia and Africa. The British rule over the colonized lands was harsh and violent, hence a revolt was inevitable. Colonies which got their independence using two different types of protests ... bullied, for disobedience, by the British. They used inhuman torture techniques to extract confessions and used farce trials to quickly execute those opposing their rule.i Some took Indian slaves just to scold and beat them to death. Even the Sepoys, which were Indian soldier hired by the Briti...

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... here is that should India control Kashmir. And the answer to that is, India should not have any control over Kashmir because Kashmir is a Muslim majority state, it is also essential for Pakistan for its national identity and Kashmiri have the right to choose their own government. India's unreasonable determination to ... . The UN also invalidates such claim and there are doubts about the very existence of this Instrument of Accession. Kashmir was always the Muslim majority area and it not only had geographical nearness with Pakistan, but also had the important economic links with other t...

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... from the Islamic empire and spread the ideas of Islam around the world. The early foundations of the Islamic empire were sown by powerful armies that brought everyone under the rule of a unified Islamic government. Once the Bedouin tribes of Arabia had been unified, their skills as fighters were used by the caliphate in order to gain more territory. These armies ... these areas. Once the Muslim armies had conquered these vast regions, it came down to the caliph to rule them. Being a government based on religion, the best way to turn resentful conquered states into loyal territories of t...

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... political issues, clearly understanding the peasants better than that of his intellectual fellow Nationalists. Gandhi felt a need in him to free India from foreign rule and from her own shortcomings-- which included religious hatred, child marriages, and poverty, just to name a few. Gandhi himself was a victim to ... followed him for the sole reason that he "approached the poor with the mind of the poor" (Chadha, I). Gandhi soon became revered by the majority of the people and was often called the "Mahatma", meaning the "great -souled" one. The Indian people saw him as their way out, ......

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... organisation openly had been taking the side of the terror mongers. As a result the violence and destruction in my country has escalated. The majority community the Sinhalese have been the dominant race in the country with a written history reaching back to 540 B.C. The sinhalese with the ... half-heartedly resisted when the British arrived in 1796. The Brits wore down Kandy's sovereignty and in 1815 became the first European power to rule the entire island. Coffee, tea, cinnamon and coconut plantations (worked by Tamil laborers imported from southern India) sprang up and English was .....

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... BC. India was an imperial possession long before the British made it theirs in the 1700s. The ancient Hindu states under their rajas had first known alien rule at the end of the twelfth century, when Turkish-speaking Muslims invaded India from the north. In September of 1599, a group of London merchants pledged themselves ... Bengal, each of which were independent of the others and corresponding directly with London. For hundreds of years, India was home to massive empires and regional kingdoms. Foreign rule produced Indian nationalism, which eventually led to India winning its independe...

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... changed. It also informs us about the British and Indian attitudes towards each other in the mid-19th century. After the 1857 rebellion, a new royal government that was under the rule of Queen Victoria replaced the East India Company. This meant that they took direct control over the former East India Company's territories and made some negotiations with the Indian Prices ... . The men who stood in the army at the end of 1859 were very different to those who were in 1857 as the new sepoys were low-caste men who majority were from Punjab. By the end of 1858, 75,000 Punjab men were serving...

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... , and most importantly a man of the people. His sole purpose in his latter part of life was to achieve what every person on the planet deserves and must demand, self rule. Though Gandhi's messages were very clear and clean cut, the way he went about coming to the conclusions he did was quite intriguing and at times confusing to the average ... person I imagine. Throughout his life, Gandhi surrounded himself with religious people, Christians, Hindus, and Muslims alike, and he was capable of doing something a vast majority of the world has not been able to do for thousands of years; see al...

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... , stood for the election in 1960 and became the world's first woman prime minister. Ceylon became the Republic of Sri Lanka in 1972. Throughout the 1980s Tamil opposition to Sinhalese rule increased. The Tamils began to fight for an independent homeland in the north and east of the island. Violence continued in the 1990s. In 1993, the president was assassinated by ... a suicide bomber. The population in Sri Lanka was about 17.3 million. The majority of the population is Sinhalese, but Tamils form a minority. The Sinhalese are Buddhists while the Tamils are Hindus. There were two types of...

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... idea of British control in India is agreed with by Vinayshil Gautam as he calls this scheme "the monopolistic system of the English". The observation that the colonists held the majority of the positions within the government in India is very reliable as there is evidence within the previously stated secondary source to support it and there is no bias apparent ... within the government and Dadabhai Naoroji was president of the congress when it first called for the independence of India. The famines that had been occurring throughout Indian under British rule would have had an impact on ...

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... is alike. Both India and America were British colonies. America was formed by colonists who came to America to live a life without the control of the Britain government. Instead, Britain's rule followed them to America and ruled the colonists from 1606 to 1788 . India was also ruled by the British. In 1877 Britain came to power in India. Using Mahatma Gandhi ... . India and the United States of America both started out similarly. Freedom of religion in the United States and India is a strong part of the culture. Although majority of American citizens are Christians and majority of Indian...

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... company was disbanded in 1858, hardly more than a thousand British officers controlled India, an area the size of Europe in which 200 million people--about a quarter of them Muslim, but a majority Hindu--spoke more than 200 different languages. By then, the company had carried home such Indian terms as "bungalow," "verandah," "punch," "dungarees" and "pyjamas." They had also imported back to ... died in 1605, however, the court degenerated into a series of vicious successional struggles animated by an operating principle known as takht ya takhta (throne or coffin). Aurangzeb, whose 49-y...

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... the rising anti-Muslim sentiment in India is the fact that in the 55 years since Partition, there have been more communal riots than during the 150 years of British rule. Another statistic that has eroded the political position of Indian Muslims lies in the reduction of their share in the population from 33 per cent at Independence to the current ... too large a minority to push around. But despite their drastically reduced demographic (and hence political) presence, Indian Muslims have continued to stress their separateness, thereby incurring the wrath of the majority. An obscurantist ...

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... believe that she was taking advantage and converting poor women to Christianity. She was involved in translating Bible in local Indian language. For this, she was reading, writing and concentrating majority of her day time understanding the preaching's of Bible. On the other hand, she was a role model for poor women who came in contact with her in the school/association ... times and did not realize the importance of like minded thinkers and support of thoughtful Indian. We should also note that by mid 1900's India's revolution for independence from British rule was at its peak. And dur...

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... that, it leaves little room for needs let alone wants. That money goes instead to food, in fact sixty-six percent of the total income goes towards food and the majority of the population is still undernourished. Only one tenth of the money goes towards clothing and about seven or so percent is meant for religious ceremonies where the guest must ... go to his wife because she cannot inherit. One man by the name of Baburao Balwat Kurhade spoke of his feelings about his family and how they were under his rule how they were "obtaining appreciable results under my authority."" A female's lif...

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... there was no actual cohesion between themselves in actually putting up a resistance against the Central Asian Conquerors or The Imperial Powers. The Mahasaba members envisioned a Hindu nation epitomized by the rule of Lord Rama (to set up a mythological kingdom). The Sangh Parivar was set up to make this a reality. Lost Hindu pride is a very strong feature through out. This meant that ... Hindi, whose literary dialect is more Sanskritised. But it is false to suppose Hindi lacks Persian & Arabic loanwords and Urdu lacks etymologically Sanskrit words. Urdu is the language spoken by a majo...

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... non-violent campaign of passive resistance. After his first political victory, Gandhi returns to India where he leads a peaceful movement in order to liberate this country from centuries of British rule. It was under his leadership, that the Indian independence movement adopted the strategy of non-violence, which later proved to be the unsolvable problem for the British. Over a time span ... , but in the end India acquired its long awaited for independence. Sadly, Gandhi's magnetism wasn't tough enough to bridge the widening gaps between India's two main religious groups, the Hindus (maj...

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