Culture I: Colonial India and Mohandas Gandhi
For a century and a half, the area now known as India was ruled by either the British East India Company, or the Royal Crown herself. The native people were subjected to the whims of British colonialism, which involved a strict system of monopolization to afford greater profits for the English. But around the turn of the century, the move toward Indian independence began to gather steam. The leader of this movement eventually came to be Mohandas Gandhi.
Further Reading
***www.historyofindia.com/gandhi.html - brief synopsis of Independence movement, and of Gandhi's life and importance
**web.mahatma.org - information on Gandhi and Indian Independence
*** www.cbu.edu/Gandhi - page of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non Violence, founded by Gandhi's grandson, Arun; articles on Gandhi's relevance to today's society
***Encarta Gandhi page - a good overview of the life of Gandhi, citing dates and importance in Indian Independence
***britannica.com/eb/article?eu=108616 an excellent history of colonialism all over the world by the European countries
**adaniel.tripod.com/mahatma.html good page with some infomation about Gandhi
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