The Colonial Factor and Indian Society
The purpose of this small study is to explain how the social and political identity of India, which gained its independence with the anti-colonial movement, was affected by the colonial system .... Abstract This paper will investigate in which way India having gained its independence through an ant colonial struggle has been shaped through colonial patterns in the development of its own political identity. It will be analyzed in which way India within the terminology of third world and colonialism as been influenced by the Turkish reform movement, furthermore if it is appropriate to evaluate those developments as revolution. In conclusion this paper portrays Indian society as the outcome of a synthesis between traditional values and its own conception of colonialism. 1. Social Change Brought By India and Colonialism The colonial rule of the British "East India Company" began with the seizure of the state revenues of the Bengal region after 1764 from the Mongul State , which