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Chapter 6 - Relations With Indigenous Peoples Flashcards

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Who did the Indian mutiny involve?

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Sepoys in the Bengal Army

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Why were they different to ordinary labourers?

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They were mainly peasant soldiers and proud of their military status

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What were the factors that caused the Mutiny?

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Grievances about pay
Changes to their condition of service
Cartridges in the new Enfield riffles
Landlords + Nobles deprived of their lands by Governor-General Dalhousie

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Why were the cartridges a problem?

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They were greased in animal fat
Offended both Hindus and Muslims

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When did the Sepoys start refusing to obey orders?

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Feb 1857

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What did they do at Meerut?

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Turned on their British officers and set up a mob on local Europeans

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What did they attempt to do when they seized control of most northern cities?

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Resurrect the old Mughal Emperor as a figurehead

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What were some of the rebels?

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Discontented land owners who lost out on British rule
Peasants who resented taxation

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Who were executed to stop the restoration of the Mughal dynasty?

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The Emperor’s sons

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What were the effects in Delhi and Lucknow?

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Villages burnt
Mutineers tortured
British officers, wives + children murdered

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When was British rule reasserted?

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Jun 1858

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What happened just before that?

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Battle at Gwalior

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What did Britain use India as a means of after the mutiny?

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Providing compensation

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What were examples of this?

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Extension of rail network
Growth of tea trade

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What changed in the ruling of India after the mutiny?

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It was passed onto the British govt
Internal wars ended
Had a single centralised govt

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How was the mutiny reported?

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Emphasised ‘savagery’ of Indians but not brutality of the British

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What difference did the mutiny make in their attitudes?

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Before people were curious and admired the Indian culture but after there was more ignorance

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Who did the legal systems favour?

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The white man
Wealthier Indians

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What did the ‘equality of opportunity’ provide?

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More educational opportunities for some wealthier Indians
But even people with education found it hard to obtain promotions above the lower ranks of colonial bureaucracy

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Why were railways more beneficial for the British?

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They helped the needs of trade and control
Most villages lacked even mud roads

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What were the problems with Britains new markets for produce?

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It encouraged specialisation
Lower costing grain production decreased
This was most people’s food staple
Became dependent on imports
Consumption per head decreased

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How much land did the irrigation projects cover?

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6%

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Where did the land improvements happen?

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Where they supported British commercial interests

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Why in the long term did Britains cheap manufacturers not benefit India?

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They were unable to develop viable industries of their own like before

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Who did Britain provide schools and universities to?
The privileged Illiteracy was widespread
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What did Britain provide jobs in for the Indians?
Railways, army, police, civil service Only a minority could have this employment
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What did the famine cause?
High death rates
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Who made a tour of India between 1859 and 1861?
Viceroy Canning
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What was the aim of the tour?
To win back support if people were dispossessed or felt alienated by B rule
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What did he change?
- Lands + titles returned to some native Indians - Star of India medals introduced - Positions in Imperial Assembly or Statutory Civil Service Shared with Ind Nobility
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Where were universities opened?
Bombay, Madras, Calcutta
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What were some other schools set up to do?
Make ‘Westernised Oriental Gentlemen’ (wogs)
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How many Indians entered universities 30 years later?
60,000
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What were the most popular subjects to study?
Arts + law
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Where did a lot of these graduates of law work after?
In the govt service
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Who helped establish girls schools and teaching colleges?
Mary Carpenter
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What were the major economic changes after 1858?
Railways Factories Raw cotton production increase
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How did the British feel they justified their actions?
Believed in their ‘benign rule’ T.B Macaulay thought educating them would make them ‘English in taste, in opinions, in morals’
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Who are the Boers?
Descendants of the original Dutch settlers in the Cape area
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Who are the Bantu tribes?
A general label for the 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages
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What was the relationship between the British and the Boers?
Peaceful until <1850 the British came into conflict with Boers + Bantu
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What discovery started the friction?
Diamonds
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Who did the 'diamond rush' attract?
White settlers + Bantu speaking people
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In 1868 where did the British annex?
Basutoland
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Why did they annex it?
They claimed that the Indigenous African wanted British protection from the Boers
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Where did the British also take in 1871?
West Griqualand
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Where did the 2000 Griqua go to establish?
East Griqualand Britain annexed it the following year
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What did Britain propose to the Boers in 1875?
A federation of the British and Boer territories, they rejected it
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Why was the area suffering from great instability?
Both British and Boers wanted to assert power
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What had the area become?
Great value for traders
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What happened in the Xhosa War 1877-78?
British disarmed and annexed the neighbouring tribesmen's communities to the Cape
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Who were the Boers less successful against?
The Pedi tribe They successfully kept their independence in the eastern Transvaal
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What did the British decide from this in 1877?
Annex the Transvaal Claimed they needed to protect the white European settlers against Pedi + Zulu tribe (most powerful)
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What did the Boers reluctantly accept?
British aid
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Where did the British invade in Jan 1879?
Zululand
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What happened in the invasion?
Defeated Zulus Zululand incorporated into Natal Attack on Pedi
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What did the Boers declare after the Zulus were defeated?
Total independence from Britain
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What did the Boers do to the British from 1880?
Attacked B army garrisons across Transvaal Won a series of military victories - Majuba Hill 1881 (150 Britons killed)
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What were the British forced to sign?
The Convention of Pretoria
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What did the Convention of Pretoria establish?
That the B govt recognised Boer self-govt in the Transvaal, but B still claimed a right to control over external affairs
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Who's presence came in 1884?
Germans
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What were the British fears from this?
That the Boers + Germans would make an alliance
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What did the British do to prevent this?
Annexed Bechuanaland Area between German South-West Africa and the Transvaal
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What did Bechuanaland become?
North = Protectorate South = Crown Colony
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What's a Crown Colony?
A colony ruled directly by an appointee of the British crown and accountable to the colonial Office
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What produced further instability?
Gold discovery near Transvaal in 1886
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Who did the gold bring?
Non-Boer Europeans (Uitlanders)
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What famous trader established his British South Africa Company in Oct 1889?
Cecil Rhodes
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What was his ultimate aim?
To create a continuous land route from Cape town to Egypt
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Who was given little thought in the increasingly eroded land?
The local Bantu tribes
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Who did the discovery of gold and diamonds increase the wealth of the most?
The settlers
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What did the new laws mean?
Mining companies who limited the rights of black Africans could have claims over the mines and trade of products
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What did this mean for their jobs?
Black Africans were stuck to manual labour but white people got skilled jobs and reaped the profits
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What were black workers forbidden by law to do?
Living wherever they wanted Forced to stay in segregated neighbourhoods or mining compounds

Alevel British Empire (24 decks)

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