History Questions
Explore questions in the History category that you can ask Spark.E!
... was meant to voice Indian opinion to British gvt in India.After the ....( for 2 reasons: as India contributed a lot to the war effort; the British rule was extremely authoritarian in ...when the gvt suspended civil liberties even after the end of the war) they advocated full independence and became a ...
First, Indian National Congress was not a ... organization, it had moderate claims for reform of the ..., not the destruction of it. (didn't ask for self-rule right , rather the ..., engaging in dialogue with the British).
Rise of nationalism: ... (trained in English-medium schools in India) started to criticize the lack of opportunity for political decisions....– Foundation of the...; the major political party in India until 1914. Started as a gathering of ....
High Imperialism Era: ... - Queen Victoria was given the title of the Empress of India.Calcutta was the capital of the BE in India.Queen Victoria Statue in the..., after her death....- Durbar (Persian word - ceremonial gathering of elites)...- Durbar (George V's came to India with his wife)Imperial Delhi Durbar. A state reception formerly given by Indian princes for a ...
India as a major economic asset:By 1... and India was the single largest market for British goods.1870... was in India, railway construction
On 26 January ..., when India became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, Nehru became the Republic of India's first prime minister.
Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning, also famous as Lord Canning was the Governor General of India from 1856 to 1862. He also became the first ... representing the British Crown after the Revolt of 1857.
Second effect of the mutiny: Mughal Empire was.... (before the rebellion, the Mughal Empire was declining, but the EIC didn't dominate the whole subcontinent)
Name one Orientalist, scholar of Ancient India, who also establisehd the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand became dominions (gained self-rule) in the ...
Public opinion in Britain was divided over the rebellion. Heroic response to disloyalty or an act of violence?...mutineers/rebels killed vs.....British citizens killed.
Third effect of the mutiny: The Crown promised to respect the...making them allies). > change in strategy. Before: dispossessing local rulers (like in Punjab) could be a threat, notably because of ...
Events of 1857 – described in different terms: as a limited... – imperialist point of view (soldiers (protest against cartilages, being sent overseas for service) vs. the government); 2) as an ....– a wider social movement. (... argued that it was a revolt because of British... of India; indeed people protested against land reforms, heavy taxation) 3rd term- the firs... – suggesting that there was a coherent national movement , whereas it wasn’t; championed by a nationalist leader … (actually, India became independent in 1947) Limited geographic scope, no central purpose.
The first effect of mutiny was : The British decided to take control of India through the ... The EIC was dissolved and India became a crown colony with a ...
After the 1857 rebellion, the local Indian rulers were given a bit more authority:... - Indians were allowed to sit in the Viceroy's council.They didn't try to reform the Indian society anymore.(strategically)
Politics of territorial expansion: Punjab was a province of British India. Most of the Punjab region was annexed by the British East India Company on 29 March..., and declared a province of...; it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British control.
In both the Caribbean and India, earlier imperial cultures of white men and their native concubines were replaced in the nineteenth century with societies that featured ....of the races, and white marriages, families, and domestic habits.
The Indian Rebellion was soon followed by wars with the ... in New Zealand from 1861 to 1865, and then by another major colonial revolt, this time in ...
By the 1830s voluntary emigration to Australia (and to a lesser extent to New Zealand) was on ... The colonial governments were especially eager to attract ....men and women who would be willing to do the hard work of brush-clearing and society-building.
Two important colonies, ..., were in the Pacific. Both were... colonies, valued for their sheep, fertile farmland, timber, and flax.