India

1)Notes on Indian Independence
__//**I**////**ndia Making of the Nationalist Challenge to the British Raj**//__ __//MI:In India the British over time tried allowing the Indians to govern the land, but the Indians soon saw the division the British still had in place leadign to new feelings of a cultural identity forming in India.//__
 * By the last years of the 19th century the western educated Indians began to become involved in government in India as they tried to share their voice
 * The **national congress party** led Indians to independence and governed them through most of the post colonial era
 * Grew out of regional associations of western educated Indians


 * By 1885 the congress party had the blessings of the British to help govern India as they felt that they could share their opinions and voice of the Indian people
 * The congress worked well in the beginning being able to handle issues and they were trusted by the British officials who put them in place
 * Opinions of the British soon began to change


 * It was recgonized that the British had a high level of racism in their government
 * Indian officials were given low salaries and less opportunities for their colonial administration than other British officials who'd done it
 * This growing sense of division with the British and other Europeans led to the development of a sense of identity which began a new environmental feeling in India

__//**Social Foundations of a Mass Movement**//__ __//MI: Soon Indians feelings toward a nationalistic movement rose as the British seemed to be plumiting the Indian people way of life and angering them//__
 * By the late 19th century educated Indians began to grope for more causes and draw together a group of the Indian population to start a nationalistic community
 * Indian bussiness men began to fund the Congress party as they began to see the British wrongs on the population
 * British were forcing Indians to pay for their war, buy their goods, straining India and making them unhappy


 * Decline in India led to resement towards the British whose own issues were causing India problems
 * Famines rose with less food productions and lack of economy led to high rate of poverty
 * British reacted to late to these problems and some Indians began to rise up against them

//**__The Rise of Militant Nationalism__**// __//MI:Soon Indian nationalist tried to free India from the British through violent means or later some peaceful attempts were made, all together though India was striving to be free from the British//__
 * Soon attempts were made to unite the Indians to began decolinization. **B.G Tilak** tried uniting the Hindus as a first attempt since they made up the majority of the population
 * He began trying to please Hindus by re-envoking old traditions and convinced Indians to try to boycott the British goods
 * Persuaded Indian officials to not server the British anymore and he also told the British he wanted India's independance or a violent rebellion would happen


 * The British grew uneasy of Tilak's movements and so they arrested and imprisoned him for 6 years in exile in Burma
 * Terrorist organizations soon began to develop in India to attack the British by bombings and other assualts
 * They were lead by guru-style leaders who targeted British officials and builds as the priority for assuaalts


 * The terrorist threat subsided by World War Ones outbreak and with that however new problems for the British began
 * Western educated Indians were placed in the Congress and soon became the dominant foce in it
 * New peaceful means of approach began to be tried to gain freedom from the British. The 1909 **Morley-Minto reforms** expanded the control of the Indians

__**//The Emergence of Gandi and the Spread of Nationalist Struggle//**__ __//MI:After World War One the British who refused to give up India were confronted by the non-violent tactics of Ghandi ,who soon enpowered the Indian people to rebell in non-violent ways of protest and demonstration to up hold the British overlords.//__
 * During world war one India played a huge role in the British effort during the war as soldiers were taken and loans from the country
 * As trouble occurred in India (poverty, loss of life, inflation) nationalist leaders such as Ghandi and Tilak tried to sell bonds
 * Peasant class in India grew angry with the British who still despite Indias role in th war were gaining money and support while India was crumbling on the inside


 * In 1918 when the war ended the British didn't keep their promise to free India due to their participation in the war
 * The **Montagu-Chelmsford reforms** of 1919 gave Indians at all INdia level the power of provincial adminstration and control
 * However their new freedom soon was crippled by the **Rowlatt Act** in 1919


 * Mohandas Gandi emerged as a new nationalist leader in India who was for campains and protest against the British overlords
 * Ghandi's most successful aspect was the fact that he used non-violent but aggressive methods to gain what he wanted
 * He heavily advocated boycots, strikes, noncoperation, and mass demenstration. These tactics were called **satygraha**


 * Ghandi's peaceful approach enpowered his people and brought down his adversaries
 * Indian people soon felt honored to join the protest for their land against the British
 * Under Ghandi protest surged in India during the 1920s and 1930s

__//MI:After World War two broke out the British soon wanted India to help in the efforts to ends the war again however they refused to help as they were unwilling to make India free. After the end of world war two British hold began to fade and soon the establishment of two states in the "India" area occurred. Soon other colonies soon began uprising as well either peacefully or by force to gain their independance. It seemed now that the imperialistic age was coming to an end.//__
 * //The Winning of Independance In South and South East Asia//**
 * When world war two Broke out in the 1930s the British asked India to help them in the war efforts. India asked for their independance in reutrn but Churchhill denied their request.
 * Indian people began to have civildisobedience campains that angeredered the British who responded with repression and mass arrests
 * Soon the **Muslim League** that rallied behind the British toon a strong hold in India under the strength of **Muhammad Ali Jinnah**


 * Soon disruptions in India and movements in India led to the independance being a reasonable thing that needed to be negotiated
 * The muslim League didn't want a single India, they wanted their own state outside of the Hindus who populated India to prevent discrimination
 * Soon two new states were created the Muslim state of Pakistan and the hindu state of India


 * The haste of the British withdrawl led to much blood shed and violence in the aea
 * Hindu and Muslims began to fight at public areas and cause chaos as a delay of the states being formed
 * While Ghandi preached for peace he had been killed so the nonviolent meathod of protest began to fasde away (Ghandi died January 30th 1948)


 * The independance of India from the British sparked other nations in Asia to pursue their own independance and freedom
 * British lost control of their islands and other land holds in Asia (Burma, Ceylon) as well as their colonies in Africa. The Dutch began to get invovled with fights with their colonies when they formed their own govenrment after Japanese occupation ended. America were losing their hold on the Phillipines.
 * The imperial age was ending in Asia with the colonies now establishing their own free states

2) Indian Identity Identity is how you see yourself as a person. This can be either from location, feelings,gestures, food, or any type of form of culture. Your identity defines qho you are as a person and it is what makes you an individual and not part of a group. Although some identities share common resemblences, everyone one has their own personal identity.  Identities can be formed from anything that you find special. It can have to do with your cultural values, religious values, maybe even something as simple as where your from. Your identity is formed mostly by how you end up defining and seperting yourself from others and becoming and individual.  Our identities can influence that way we see ourselves and other because it defines who we are. Although our identities are no all equal, they may be similar. The similarities that our identities share is what brings people together. If we share a common identity usually we have a same feeling of mind or have a way that we can come together. If we come together than we can be determined to work together and solve problems that face us. Conformity is the way in which people come together based on their similar identities so that they can express or do something together. Conformity is how a type of society or group of become is shown because they all share something i common that draws them together.
 * What is an Identity?
 * How are our identities formed?
 * How does our identity influence the way we see ourselves and others?
 * What is conformity?
 * How does a society decide who belongs and who does not?

Society decides who belongs based on the most prominent form of identity. Traits that most of society shares become that accepted forms of identity while those who don't share those traits have the uncommon identity. People our afraid of those who don't share similar identities so that is while some become socially accepted and other don't become accepted Our attitude and beliefs toward things make us express specific feelings towards them. If we have a bad attitutde that makes us think everything we believe is right we don't be able to accept other because of their differences.The same goes for beliefs because we may hold them to dearly to ourselves so we will not allow for change or any type of alteration to them.
 * How do our attitudes and beliefs influence our thinking?
 * What does it mean to belong to a group?

Membership is defined as acceptance into that specific group. Usually who dictates who is accepted is based on their specific role in the group. Some groups that have a high standing person dictates it but others that don't have that figure, you're the one who defines if you're a member or not.
 * How is membership defined and by whom is membership defined?

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