India:The Jewel in the Crown

[Jillius]

How did Indian people feel about British rule in India?
i need this for homework please help lol

[Pragmatist]

Hello Jillius - a little late I'm afraid but there was a programme on BBC2 on (last) Sunday called 'Clash of Worlds' which examined where the conflict between Islam and the West came from and that week centured around the 'Raj' , gave a lot of what you are looking for - unfortunately - and someone please contradict me! - I can't see a repeat anywhere on this weeks programmes - but if you put this title into your search engine ( i use yahoo) you will probably find several useful references & books you can use - on the other hand someone may have taped it???!!!! Good luck! I always hated essays!

[Jillius]

Thanks. It was for my daughter's homework. She tried all the websites and couldn't find anything so I thought the good old answer bank was worth a shot !
She rang a friend and got the answers in the end, but thanks again.

[vehelpfulguy]

One of the recent "Who do you think you are" series on BBC covered some of this.

Alister McGowan (the "scottish" comedian) found he had Indian ancestors.

He went there and found that the Indians and English were encouraged to marry. One of his soldier ancestors married an indian lady, and there is a whole load of McGowans living in India who dress and act like the English, but look indian.

When the raj was at its height many of these anglo - indian's were given jobs by the English (the feeling being that being part English they would support the English).

Later when other countries had revolutions where the locals rioted the English in India got worried and stopped giving the anglo - english jobs (or held back their promotion) and became a sort of underclass, neither English or Indian.

Well worth seeing the program if you get the chance.

[fletcher.5]

I think a fair summing up to your answer could be.
When Ghandi was asked about western civilisation he answered, WHAT A GOOD IDEA