What was the BEIC's (British east India Company) main goal in India?
What is money? (OF COURSE!!!)
100
What was the name of the Indian soldier who revolted? Whoever named the revolution was real creative?
Who are the sepoy?
100
After the sepoy rebellion, this Country won the rebellion and slaughtered thousands of their enemies.
What is England?
100
This canal opened up British trade with India.
What is the Suez canal?
100
Educated Indians formed the Indian National congress which became know as what?
What is the Congress Party?
200
What English rival did the BEIC rid India of?
What is France?
200
What Muslim empire's ruler became the new ruler for the Sepoy?
What is the Mughal?
200
In 1858, this government body ended the rule of the BEIC in India.
What is British Parliament?
200
The British clearing of farmlands in India lead to what?
What is deforestation?
200
Members of the congress believed relied on what to reach their objectives?
What are peaceful protests?
300
What religion did the BEIC attempt to convert the Indians to?
What is Christianity?
300
What Mughal capital did the sepoy march to?
What is Delhi?
300
This name was given to the British ruler who ruled in stead of the king/queen?
What is a viceroy?
300
Indian elite sent their children to schools where they learned skills for what?
What is posts in civil service and millitary?
300
Which popular race of Indians were the majority rulers in the Congress Party?
Who are Hindus?
400
What improvements did the BEIC attempt to make in India? (You only need 1 of 3 to get points!)
What is improve roads, preserve peace, and reduce banditry?
400
The british East India Company forced Sepoy to travel and serve anywhere. However this was against what type of Hindus?
What is orthodox?
400
This new method of communication gave Britain better control of India.
What is the telegraph?
400
Which Indian thinker saw that there were advantages to Indian and western culture?
Who is Ram Mohun Roy?
400
The Muslims who resented Hindu dominance ended up forming what body of government to protect the rights of Muslims.
What is the Muslim League?
500
The BEIC made many social reforms in India.. One law banned this Indian custom where a widow would throw herself on her dead husband's funeral pyre, to join him in death?
What is sati?
500
The BEIC issued rifles that required the sepoy to bite the cartridge to load the rifle. The cartridge contained what substance that was sacred to Hindus and banned to Muslims.
What is animal fat? (Cow or pig)
500
The system of colonial rule parliament set in place in India was called?
What is the British Raj?
500
Which British historian, "wrote that a single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia?
Who is Thomas Macaulay?
500
Before the Muslim League supported self-rule, and even creating a separate Muslim country, they supported who to rule India?