| REVIEW SHEET 22 | INDIA AND THE ISLAMIC HEARTLANDS (1800-1945) |
| pp. 674-683 |
| 1. | Focus Question: How did India fall under British dominance and what were the consequences for India? |
| Which country in the 19th century won the greatest colonial empire in the Afro-Asian world? What method did the British East India Company use to gain control over India? How did Company policies change Indian society? In what aspects did the British East India Company mismanage India? How did the Indians react? What was the immediate cause of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857? What were the underlying causes of the revolt? Why were the British able to prevail? When did the British government take over direct administration of India? How did the British view their role in India and towards Indians? What was the initial policy of the East India Company toward Christian missionaries? What was Ram Mohan Roy's goal and how did he hope to achieve it? Hope did British economic policies "hurt" India? | |
| 2. | Focus Question: How did the coming of the Crown Raj change the relationship between the British and Indians? |
| How did the Sepoy Mutiny change British rule in India? What event prompted the British government to take over direct administration of India? How did the Sepoy revolt change the nature of the army in India? What impact did the introduction of British machine-made produces have on Indian craft industries? What was the result of the British disruption of the economic balance in the Indian countryside? | |
| 3. | Focus Question: How did India achieve independence and what major "rift" resulted? |
| What was the initial purpose of the Indian National Congress? What internal Indian conditions hindered independence? What Indian leader lead the "all-India" drive that finally forced the British to leave India to the Indians? What three Indian groups worked for Indian independence? Which group tended to resist British influence the most? Why did the British tend to favor the Hindus over the Muslims in India? What did the Muslims fear in their relationship with the Hindus? During the 20th century, how have Muslim-Hindu relations developed in India? What has been the result? In what sense was British government negative, and in what sense was it a positive development? | |
| 4. | Focus Question: How did Islamic Countries respond to declining power and Independence? |
| In which century was the weakening of the great Muslim empires and the increasing ascendancy of the West become evident? What was the condition of the Muslim empires by the 18th century? What was the goal of reform movements within Islam during the 18th century? Against what did the Wahhabists react and what were to be the only authorities for Islam? | |
| 5. | Focus Question: When and How did the West Encroach of the Islamic World and What Impact did it have? |
| What is a capitulation and how did they function? How did the European economies help them overcome Islamic power? What event heralded a new ear of European imperialism in the Islamic world? Which nation was Britain's greatest rival for influence in Islamic Asia? Which areas of the Islamic world were most affected by the West, which the least? Under Qajar rule how did the role of the ulama change in Iranian society? How did opposition to the West help to change Iranian institutions? What were the three "typical" styles of reaction to the West? Which states/leaders are representative of each type of response? What impact did western contacts have on the development of "nationalism" in the Islamic world? |
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cantonments Muhammad Ali Tanzimat reforms Mustafa Kemal Iman [Arab = leader] a recognized leader or a religious teacher.
Any pious Muslim can function as iman. The term is also used as a
synonym for caliph, God's vice-regent. Among SHI'ITES the belief
arose that a hidden or unrecognized imam, or true caliph (the MAHDI) ,
would return at the end of the world and restore the true CALIPHATE.
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