The British Empire: A source for good or evil? January 2014 | Page 16

Many colonial soldiers died fighting for Britain in it's wars. Would they
have gone to war if their own countries had been independent ?

COMPANY RULE IN INDIA

Vocabulary :
Responsibility : the ability or
authority to act or decide on one's
own, without supervision
Renovate :
to restore (something) to good
condition
Resolution : the act or process of
separating something into its
constituent parts or elements
Gandhi : Lawyer(Avocado) having

In 1857, the Indian Mutiny, Indian soldiers in the service
of the British, is transformed into general popular uprising
against the power of the English Company of East Indies.
Certain Indians consider this revolt as the first war fruitless - of independence, although he can involve a
retrospective reading of the history(story) there. Further to
this revolt, India is placed under the direct responsibility
of the British Crown, and the moghol emperor definitively
put down(deposited). A movement of legal codification is
begun(primed) to renovate the right(straight) Indian, then
split up and chaotic In 1919 in the Punjab, the massacre of
Amritsar, where hundreds of civilians were shot by the
British troops, causes a trauma in all the nation and
increases the public anger and the acts of violence. Gandhi
criticizes at the same time the actions(shares) of the
United Kingdom and the violent reprisals of the Indians.
He writes a resolution where he presents his condolences
to the British civil victims and condemns the riots. She(it)
is acc WFVB