1. THE BRITISH TAKE OVER INDIA
Chapter 9 Section 4

2. East India Company Mid-1800s controlled 3/5 of India
Exploited diversity
Many people and cultures
Struggled to united against British
Goal to make money
Also improved roads and peace

4. Reform 1800s British Introduced Western Education and legal procedures
Christianity
Worked to end slavery and caste system
Ended Sati—Hindu practice requiring women to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral fire

5. Discontent
Sepoys, Indian soldiers in EIC service, required to serve anywhere
Against religion to travel overseas
EIC passed laws that widows could remarry
Against religion
1857—Sepoys given new rifles
Told to bite off cartridges before loading
Greased with animal fat
Imprisoned for no loading

6. Sepoy Rebellion
Marched to Delhi and named last Mughal ruler as their leader
Brutally massacred British men, women and children
British took revenge
Torched villages and slaughtered thousands of innocent

7. Sepoy Rebellion Bitter legacy of fear and mistrust on both sides
1858—Parliament ended EIC rule
India under direct rule of British crown
More troops
Taxed Indians

8. British Colonial Rule The British Raj
A Viceroy governed in the name of the Queen
Other British men in power
India was “brightest jewel” in their empire

9. British Colonial Rule Unequal partnership
Pros
Cons
Some peace
Legal system regardless of caste
Railroads and roads
Telegraph
Postal system
Upper classes sent children to English universities
Unequal partnership
British goods destroyed strong Indian hand- weaving industry
Deforestation
Food supply strain
Famines

10. Indian Nationalism Grows
Late 1800s: Western schools influenced young Indians
Wanted democracy and autonomy
1885: Indian National Congress (The Congress Party)
Peaceful protests
Supported western modernization
Muslims split and formed Muslim League
Talks of separate Muslim state