HSTR 347A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cannon Fodder, Cartouche, Bhumihar
2 Apr 2016
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The zalindari system landlord will have the money from their land. land management on english management. Previous mutinies : madars/bengal armies + afghanistan, burma campaigns. Fluctuations in pay: a lot of dissafection. Awadh and rights to petitions : see the military as a space for mobility, but then missionaries, less space for them to exprem. Introduction of enfield muskets = spark new innovation open the cartouch with your mouth, hindou and muslim rumor that these cartouches putting into these big cases usually incased in fat/oil pig/cow fat. What they were doing to test indian loyalty disrespect their religion to test loyalty to the company. India and post-abolition labor, c. 1860 still a system of indentured labour to replace slave (in sugar cane plantation) very relevant to understand how the company became soereign in india; Agrian protest revolted against cultivation of cotton/opium/tea. Aristocratic unrest : small principalities (jhansi, awadh, satara) empowered because female rulers.
