Neo-colonialism

Neo-colonialism

Since the end of the 1990s has been developing an international campaign for debt relief for poor countries, especially Africa.

This kind of action has been gaining adherents and is a sign that global poverty even bother to point to the rich countries to seek solutions to it.

We must remember, however, that the origin of poverty, which condemns to death millions of people around the world, is the intense exploitation perpetrated by world powers for centuries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This process is known as imperialism.

The new European issues

In the nineteenth century for many European countries have colonies meant to have easy and cheap access to raw materials and energy sources for industry such as iron, coal and oil. It also meant building the consumer markets for products manufactured in Europe.

Opium War

Opium War

Until the late eighteenth century, Europeans were only allowed to negotiate with China through the port of Canton. The Chinese, who considered their country self-sufficient, they showed little interest in foreign goods, in exchange for its exports of porcelain, silk and tea. Moreover, the trade could not be done directly with the Chinese population. Should be mediated by special officials, which set quotas and prices of goods.

INDIAN CRISTIANS AND INM

INDIAN CHRISTIANS AND THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT

There are many Hindutva ideologues and organisations that accuse the Christians in India that they did not participate in the freedom struggle. M.S. Golwalkar (1906-1973) who was the leader of the RSS for more than three decades, says in his Bunch of Thoughts (1966,1996) that Christians in India are not merely irreligious but also anti-nationals and internal threats to the security of the nation. He alleges that the Christians, in general, kept themselves aloof from the freedom struggle. In fact, they were on the side of the British who belonged to their own faith. The British in turn helped the Christian missionaries to materialise their ‘agenda’.

Arun Shourie, a prominent BJP leader who was a Cabinet Minister in the former BJP-led NDA government, states in his Missionaries in India (1994) a view similar to that of Golwalkar. Shourie says: “For over a hundred years thus missionary activity was interwoven with, and inextricably tied up with British imperial control of India: that the missionaries – even those of Indian origin – did not join the Independence Movement was not an accident”.

ADMINISTRATION UNDER AKBAR

ADMINISTRATION UNDER AKBAR

1. Like other Muslim monarchs, Akbar was, at least in theory, subordinate to the wishes of entire Muslim population (millat), which, in turn, was guided by the Muslimlearned divines called the Ulema. Akbar sought to remove this check to his will and became the supreme authority over his Muslim subjects by promulgating theInfallibility Decree (Mahzar) in September 1579.

2. Akbar believed that the king must be absolutely tolerant to every creed and must establish universal peace in his dominion.

3. As per Abul Fazal’s Akbarnama, Akbar appeared three times every day for State business. Early at sunrise he used to be ready at jhroka-i-darshan to show himself to his subjects. Here he was accessible to the common people and listened to their complaints. Next, he used to hold an open court which generally lasted for four and a half hours. People from both sexes were allowed to submit their petitions and the emperor used to decide the cases on the spot.

4. In the afternoon Akbar used to hold a full durbar in the Diwan-i-Aam. Here he attended to daily routine business, particularly relating to forces, workshops and to the appointment and promotion of mansabdars and granting of jagirs.

QUESTION & ANSWERES-INDIAN HISTORY

QUESTION & ANSWERES-INDIAN HISTORY

1). The Indian Association and National Conference both were founded by-
a) Surendranath Bannerjee
b) Ananda Mohana Bose
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Sisir kumar Ghosh

2). Who of the following founded a National society, a national paper, a national school and a national Gymnasium and made the word “ National “ popular in the later half of 19^th century?
a) Jothindranath Tagore
b) Rajanarayan Bose
c) Nabagopal mitra
d) Satyendranath Tagore

3). Balagangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of “ LOKMANYA “<universally respected> during:
a) Swadeshi movement
b) Revolement
c) Home rule movement
d) His imprisonment in 1908

4). Who was instrumental in founding the National Committee in 1938 for drawing up a plan for economic development on the basis of industrialization?
a) Subhas Chandra Bose
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

5). Madan lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London, who was a ____________
a) Sec. of State for India
b) Advisor to the Sec of State for India
c) Law member of Viceroy’s exe council
d) Former Governor of Punjab

St. Francis Xavier -HISTORY RESOURCES

St. Francis Xavier 
Letter from India, to the Society of Jesus at Rome, 1543

 May the grace and charity of Christ our Lord always help and favor us! Amen.

It is now the third year since I left Portugal. I am writing to you for the third time, having as yet received only one letter from you, dated February 1542. God is my witness what joy it caused me. I only received it two months ago, later than is usual for letters to reach India, because the vessel which brought it had passed the winter at Mozambique.
I and Francis Mancias are now living amongst the Christians of Comorin. They are very numerous, and increase largely every day.

HISTORY RESOURCES-John A. Hobson

JOHN HOBSON
IMPERIALISM, 1902

 John A. Hobson (1858­1940), an English economist, wrote one the most famous critiques of the economic bases of imperialism in 1902.

Amid the welter of vague political abstractions to lay one's finger accurately upon any "ism" so as to pin it down and mark it out by definition seems impossible. Where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort, it is idle to demand the same rigour as is expected in the exact sciences. A certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits.