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  • World History: Imperialism and War
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    • Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century
    • The Impact of Imperialism
    • Imperialism, Modernization and Resistance
    • The Causes of World War One
    • World War One: Global War
    • The Impact of Global War
    • The Interwar Years
    • The Rise of Totalitarian States: Russia and Italy
    • Totalitarianism and Militarism: Germany and Japan

Imperialism, Modernization and Resistance

1. Overview
2. The European conquest of Africa
3. Imperialism and technology
4. Asian Responses to Imperialism
5. The Qing Dynasty
6. The Opium Wars
7. The Taiping and Boxer Rebellions
8. Japanese Imperialism
9. The Ottoman Empire
10. The Indian Mutiny
11. Economic imperialism in Latin America
12. Western anti-imperialism
13. Review

The Indian Mutiny

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Reading

Read the below articles about Indian resistance to imperialism. As you do so, consider the following questions:

  • What caused the Indian Mutiny?
  • What were the consequences of the Indian Mutiny, for India and for Great Britain?

George Landow, ‘The 1857 Indian Mutiny (also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, the Great Mutiny, and the Revolt of 1857)’, The Victorian Web: Literature, History and Culture in the Age of Victoria, August 2007.

Desmond Kuah and Jacqueline Banerjee, ‘”The Epic of the Race”: The Indian Uprisings of 1857’, The Victorian Web: Literature, History and Culture in the Age of Victoria, February 2015.

Share your thoughts about these readings with your fellow students on WEnotes. For example:

  • British officials …
  • After the Mutiny was quelled …

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