When world trading began mercantilisitic Britain saw its big chance. They started this company called the English East India Company which controlled almost all trade in India. The East India Co. was like an independent country, even though it had strong political ties to the British government, and used its power to control most of India.

During the middle of the eighteenth century, the French tried to take over part of India. With the help of the British government, the East India Co. fought off the French and then allowed them a few trading posts in the country. From these fights the Britain was able to gain even more land in India. British governmental policy was enforced in the trading company and the Hindus weren't strong enough to fight off the incoming Brits.

Then the British took over India. Along the way there were many conflicts with the Indian people. Great Britain had a doctrine that said that the Company had the right t

On October 16, 1905, Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal because of it being too big to control. Instead of dividing it based on areas not considered part of Bengal, they based the division on Hindus and Muslims. The British thought that through the partition, they would succeed in dividing Hindu politicians of western and eastern Bengal and increase Hindu- Muslim tensions. The partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. As a result, the Congress launched movements and the protests, Swadeshi and Swaraj, became the national slogan and the whole of India was drawn into the Nationalist movement in one way or another. It is not until the Congress is lead by Mohandas Gandhi in 1920 that steps are taken to unify the movement and face the challenges poised by the peasants and Muslims. Under the leadership of Gandhi, the Non-cooperation movement was launched, beginning with renunciation of honorary titles like "Sir" given by the !

Indian nationalism was not a simple unification of Indians against colonial rule. There were many complexities involved in forming an organization that sought to speak on behalf of the people, and many of these challenges were posed to the Indian National Congress because their leadership consisted of the Hindu elite. In 1885, the Indian National Congress was formed through the initiative of Allen Octavian Hume, and it quickly became the chief organization representing the will of the common people and sought to lead the Indians in their struggle for freedom. The major drawbacks of the early nationalists was that the movement was confined to educated Indians and the middle class, while their method of functioning was within the law and slow. As Indian leaders gradually became disillusioned with the British Government, the new leaders began to assert for the attainment of Swaraj, which could be achieved only by working among the masses and their participation in political prot!

During the next fifty years Indian people began to form secretive organizations, lead propaganda campaigns, and try create an awareness among the people as to what the British government was doing in the land, to the people, and to the Hindu faith. An especially powerful organization among the Indians was the Indian National Congress. This organization worked hard to unite the people of India and to better inform them of the government and its practices. All of these things put together posed a very serious threat to the British control of India. The congress incited many years of violent uprisings and acts of terrorism by the Indian people. Because of Victorian fear of anything remotely "off-colored" or sexual the Hindu faith was repressed and the leaders were imprisoned or killed as examples to the rest of the nation. But, through the work of the Indian National Congress; when the British would retaliate, the people would boycott British goods causing even more problems for!

There was a point in the British occupati

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