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The British Take Over India

9.4 Notes. The British Take Over India. I. East India Co. Rule. How did the British Conquer India? British took advantage of India’s divisions/ diversity Used superior weapons. I. East India Co. Rule cont. British Policy Make money Improve roads Preserve peace Western education/ legal

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The British Take Over India

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  1. 9.4 Notes The British Take Over India

  2. I. East India Co. Rule • How did the British Conquer India? • British took advantage of India’s divisions/ diversity • Used superior weapons

  3. I. East India Co. Rule cont. • British Policy • Make money • Improve roads • Preserve peace • Western education/ legal • Missionaries • Ended “sati”- Hindu custom of having wife kill herself when husband dies

  4. II. Discontent and Rebellion • Sepoy- Indian soldiers in service to the East India Co. • They required them to serve anywhere even overseas • Allowed Hindu women to remarry • Issued rifle cartridges greased with animal fat that you had to bite off to use • Troops refused for religious reasons

  5. II. Discontent and Rebellion cont. • Sepoy Rebellion- Sepoys rose up and massacred British • British retaliated and torched villages and slaughtering thousands • British crown took direct control of India

  6. III. Impact of British Colonial Rule • British viceroy governed • Unequal partnership • British put in railroads, telegraphs, medical advances, forced growing of cash crops • Policies also led to deforestation and famine from rapid population growth

  7. IV. Views on Culture • Ram Mohun Roy- father of Indian nationalism • founded Hindu College in India (English style education) • Roy also helped reform Indian culture • Helped end rigid class distinctions • Helped end Purdah-isolation of women in separate quarters

  8. V. Indian Nationalism Grows • Western-educated Indians emerged • Turn against Britain • Indian National Congress- In 1885 nationalist leaders organize the Congress party • Called for greater democracy • Muslim League- Muslim formed own party supported a Muslim state.

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