CCOT India (1850-1950’s)

Akil Scott and Presto Glover3B

Begin Situation

• After hundreds of years of a Sultanate, India was under rule of first the EIC (East India Company) and then Britain.

• India began to crave a higher level of participation in the government which will augment to an even higher level later on during the time period.

Changes• Around the 1940’s, in part due to the significant

revolutionary events starting with the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857, India would officially gain independence from British rule after 200 years of being colonised by them.

• The British rule, which ended in the 1940’s, also raised India’s level of cultural synthesis (e.g Europeans and Africans moving into India and practicing the customs of their original countries, which in turn lowered the practicing of traditional Indian culture in the country and also resulted in cultural mixing (e.g Europeans marrying Indians) and also attempted to reform various cultural practices (e.g bathing in the Ganges) as it felt wrong to most Europeans.

Seopy Rebellion

Of 1857

Continuities• Continuous British rule which helped (or led

to) establish infrastructure (railroads and telegraph) and a more formal governmental structure including the Indian National Congress (on a gradual rate of progression).

• During the time period, especially under British rule, the overall economical level of India, including its citizens (e.g higher middle class) continued to maintain a gradual level of increase during the aforementioned, two-hundred-year of time.

End Situation• India is now an autonomous state with its

own currency, self-controlling government that is, even today, still (somewhat) reflective of the government of the Brits that had ruled up to even 70 years ago.

• India continues to be on a level of increasing economical levels and levels of infrastructure and continues to make its mark on the continuities and changes of the rest of the world as an important, powerful and culturally-rich country that India has become in the modern world.

Works Cited

Crossley, Pamela Kyle. The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2011. Print

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"World History." Timelines. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2015.