British India: Causes Of The Mutiny (Religion) Flashcards
What was common in the 18th century?
Intermarriage
What was the East India companies original cultural policy?
Cultural neutrality
What did liberalism believe?
Saw Indian culture as a barrier to economic growth
What was the evangelical Christians opinion on Indian culture?
Missionaries sought to free the Indians from their “cruel” religion
Who saw it as their aim to “convert the Sepoy to God”/”rescue them from eternal damnation”?
34th Infantry at Barrackpur
What did the 34th Infantry at Barrackpur say?
“Convert the Sepoy to God”
“Rescue them from eternal damnation”
What three customs upset the British missionaries and modernisers?
Female infanticide
Thai
Sati
What was the impact of:
Female infanticide
Thagi
Sati
Upset British missionaries and modernisers
Which Indian tradition did the victorians hate the most?
Sati
Where was female infanticide most common?
North- Western India
What was common in North-Western India?
Female infanticide
What was female infanticide?
Killing of newborn female children
What practice involved the murder of newborn female children?
Female infanticide
What was thagi?
Cult of assassin priests
What were the cult of assassin priests?
Thagi
What did Thagi do?
Strangle unwary travellers on Indian roads
Who strangled unwary travellers on Indian roads
Thagi
What tradition did the Victorians hate the most?
Sati
What was Sati?
Act in which a Hindu widow was burned alive on her husband’s funeral pyre
What was the name of the Act in which a Hindu widow was burned alive on her husband’s funeral pyre?
Sati
In the practice of Sati, where was the widow burned?
Husbands funeral pyre
What was the impact of some of the evangelical missionaries sentiment?
Alarmed both Muslims and Hindus
What did the Muslims (ulama) or scholastic believe about the British
Islam was in danger from the fanatical Farangi (Protestant Franks)
Who believed that Islam was in danger from the fanatical Farangi (Protestant Franks)?
Muslims (ulama)
