Partition 1947

19 January' 2017

Today we learnt about "how industrialisation of European countries affected the relationship with their colonies throughout the new world". During discussing this we came across some terms ike absolute monarchies, mercantilism etc. And we also learnt about the state of contries during the industrialisation of European countries. Everyone also gave sense of industrialisation of European countries. Everyone also gave sense of Industrialisation as a definition for a recap. Below are the rough notes that I made during class.

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How did Industrialisation of countries affect there relationship with the new world?

The trading market will benefit because the country buying the goods has reached mercantilism imperialism.

Mercantilism- belief in the benefits of profitable trading.

The country which is ruling is imperial and the country being ruled is the colony. This type of rule is called colonial rule.

Colonised Continents- Africa, Asia, Latin America

Imperialist Countries- United States, European countries- Spain, Portugal, Britain, Netherlands, France

Absolute Monarchies- Strong kingship

Partition 1947

18th January'2017

British came in and they started establishing trade under the name of The East India company. This began the exploitation. 

A British person would sit in the court of the ruler and would advise him how to run the court and in return Indians will give the money to the British. 

Also if there was an attack by any other Indian to country to this Indian country the British will help India. 

The British bought trading rights. They were buying these from Indian rulers. 

With these treaties Indian ruler, in many cases, also gave grants where in they started collecting taxes from the local population. They started getting in the daily routine of the locals. 

Video Notes

16th January'2017

VIDEO- Finding your Roots

Sanjay Gupta-
-a neurosurgeon

-Unusual being Indian
-not fun
-being treated differently

Margaret Cho-
- a comedian
- an immigrant
- is curious to know more about her authenticity

Martha Stewart-
-her father wasn't treated equally
-her father felt isolated
-she used to get mad about this unfair behaviour
-never wants to forget being an immgrant


Immigrants- 2nd class citizens

In this video, 3 immigrants from different corners of the world shared their stories living in America. Most of these people felt uncomfortable. People around them weren't accepting. Martha Stewart's story was about her FATHER feeling isolated and being treated unfairly and she wanting to connect to her roots but Sanjay Gupta's story was about HIM being from India and discriminated. A whole generation gap.  I see here how American's have accepted immigrants looking alike but Indians are still facing different types of discrimination.

VIDEO- I am not black, You are not white

- Labels/ we accept them without doubting them
- Forced to own their bodies
- Race was in the 15th century to divide people
- Judgemental, artificial labels
- Divisions starts conflict, conflict starts war.

This video talked about not only racism of colour, but discrimination of body. It was all about what is inside and bodies are only their to drive around. It talked about being forced to own our bodies and being judged for how our BODY looks.

Partition 1947

16th Jan' 2017

In our class we have just started with our new topic- Partition. In the first class we were given an isight into what we are going to do the next 2 months. We started off with playing tug of war. So we were divided into 2 teams- girls and boys and weren't told why we were playing it or what we were supposed to do. People used their previous experiences and understanding to play the game. The strength of the boys was more and they won by pulling the girls across the red ribbon. After the game we were asked a few terms that were in our mind and were given 3 questions to answer-what was the game, what we thought, and what we were wondering. Through these questions we realised that we did come across conflicts but we didn't dare to question them, mainly because we were scared of our teacher. And the red ribbon that we had to cross, no one thought of picking it up. We related our classroom situation to the partition. So the teacher in our situation will become the ruler or the governor and students that obey the teacher will become people who obey their ruler or government. And the red ribbon in our situation will become the border in the real world.

Through this activity, we opened our minds to the whole idea of partition. Why it happens and why people let it happen. Though a small game of tug of war, we got a good start for this unit with open minds.