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Notes on video lecture:
Transition in India: Last of the Mughals
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 10, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Dehli, consumer, Dalhousie, coastal, impinging, decomposition, Calcutta, railroad, domestic, commercial, competition, industrial, jute, languish, taxes, Punjab, discontent, treaty, Indian, Portuguese, mercantile, modernized, businessmen, Bombay, 1857, monopoly, coal, corporate, Balkanization, defected, market, princes, transportation, dismantling, 1840s, Enfield, merchant, dualistic, cotton
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mid-19th century India
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a story that braids together the stories of
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the                 
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the                rifle
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the political shifts that are being imposed on the subcontinent
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the protracted crisis in India is in contrast to what is happening in the United States
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two major              exporters faced with two very different political fortunes
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the pressures mounting for free market forces unleashed by the dismantling of old,                      states
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the Americas
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a series of European conquests
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the Spanish, the                      and the English
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colonized, dismantled, and drove underground many of the incumbent systems
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India
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1833 East India Company still enjoyed exclusive                  privileges in India
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but increasing forced to compete with other merchants
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a stimulus for the arrival of new                        looking for opportunities in India
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both foreign (British)
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as well as                  merchants taking advantages of opportunities presented by the dismantling of the monopoly power that the East India Company enjoyed
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one of the most important limitations of the penetration of the Indian market was the obstacles in                             
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most mercantile activity was restricted to                areas
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thus the railroads had an important effect on India
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began to take place in           
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a spur to the expansion of the cotton frontier
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cotton business focused on             
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India had the          which could fuel the locomotive which would transport the cotton
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most of the businesses in mining and in cotton production was, in fact,              owned
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but cotton was not the only export, due to penetration of the continent
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also          and tea
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began to change the forces of power in India
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away from           
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to the                  magnates in the coastal port cities
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the interiors get integrated to the coasts, and the coasts get integrated into the global              forces
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this is part of the                      revolution
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part of the advent of the                  revolution
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these economic shifts coincide with a political process
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Mughal Empire was in secular                           
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had been composed of a constellation of forces that paid tribute
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one by one they                 
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by the middle of the 19th century, the Mughals were not just overwhelmed
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not just by the power of the East India Company was able to impose on the region
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but East India Company was facing arrival of new                       
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result
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                           of India
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Bahadur Shah Zafar
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last Mughal Emperor emperor in name only
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authority was limited only to the city of Delhi
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following his involvement in the Indian Rebellion of         , the British exiled him to Rangoon in British-controlled Burma
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Indian actors played an active role in decomposing an incumbent system such as the Mughal Empire
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also reduced the power that the East India Company once enjoyed
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it's not a case of the East India Company replacing the Mughal emperor
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not a                    takeover, but much more complicated
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Zamindar
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a figure who would collect            to make tributary payments to authorities, either to
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emperor
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East India Company
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like tax farmers
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would return                      privileges
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aligned themselves with local                and merchants
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influential in                        the power of the Mughal Empire and East India Company
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The Earl of                   
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1848 onwards
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tried to
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reorganize India
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annex territories to their base in Bengal, in                 
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an immediate affront to the Mughal Empire
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expand railroads into inner India
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a                    society
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some parts of India locked in an old, peasant world
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some parts were much more                     
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higher productivity
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market production
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incorporated into the global, industrial arrangements
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areas like the              were booming
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while the interiors of Bengal were beginning to                 
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all of this a setting for a perfect storm for frictions and                     
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economic growth is not necessarily positive for everybody
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there are losers involved politically, economically, and socially
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as nations are forming in Europe and the Americas
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and new empires are being constituted in Asia,
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             ports were affecting China
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these contradictory pressures were                    on India

Vocabulary:

jute, n. a long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads, grown in East India and used for making mats, paper, gunny cloth ⇒ "Even though many mining and cotton businesses in India were, in fact, Indian owned, cotton was not the only major export: the production and export of jute and tea from Bengal were also becoming larger markets, in part due to the penetration of of railroads into the Indian continent beginning in the 1840s, and these were dominated by British businessmen."

Spelling Corrections:

incumbant ⇒ incumbent

Ideas and Concepts:

On the difference between Delhi and New Delhi, via this morning's History Since 1300 class: "Most people think that New Delhi is Delhi but it is not. New Delhi, which is the capital and seat of the government of India, is a territory in Delhi. It was in the early 20th century that New Delhi city was designed. It was designed as part of the shifting of the capital of the British Empire from Calcutta to Delhi. Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker are the architects who are credited with the design of the city. Both Delhi and New Delhi lie on the banks of the Yamuna River, but New Delhi was designed to be in the south of Delhi. Delhi is now a state and has a governor as the head of the government. The Government of India and the Delhi government jointly administer New Delhi. It is very hard to draw a boundary between Delhi and New Delhi. But one can make out the difference when looking at the architecture. In New Delhi, there is the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, Secretariat building, Parliament, Connaught Place, Lodhi Gardens, Jantar Mantar and India Gate. The embassies of other countries are situated towards the South of New Delhi. The streets and lanes in New Delhi are beautiful and tidy when compared with those of Delhi. In Delhi, one can come across old monuments, Mughal architecture and tombs. Red Fort, Lotus temple, Juma Masjid, Humayun Tomb are some of the old monuments in Delhi."
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