Relations with indigenous people
- Created by: LauraNannini
- Created on: 21-04-20 11:26
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- Topic 6
- India and the Sepoy's
- After the mutiny The British were forced to change how they controlled India to prevent from losing them as a colony
- Benefits
- Acted in more religiously and culturally sensitive ways
- Admiration to exotic indian lifestyle
- Some land and titles were returned to native Indians
- Star of India medals were introduced
- Positions in imperial assembly's were given to noble Indians
- More English education was provided to lower castes
- Drawbacks
- 1858 more separation was set in
- Legal system preferred white men
- Did little for peasents
- Death rates from famine were still high
- Banned from industrialisation
- Irrigation only improved in areas under British control
- Boer's and the Bantu
- Cape colony was won after the Napoleonic wars in 1815
- Boers resented British control and migrated along the coast to Natal and Zululand and some as far as Mozambique
- Bantu tribes
- Land taken by settelers
- Mining companies gave limited rights to black Africans to have any claims over mines
- Forced into hard and manual labour
- The Boers
- They hated British rule and influence
- Went to war with the British twice after the British tried to infiltrate Boer territory
- They had gold and access to precious minerals
- India and the Sepoy's
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