MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spinning Wheel, Swadeshi Movement, Salt March

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 15
• Professor: Preston Presholdt

Document Summary

Political blocs that argued that colonies should be independent nations, just like. Inheritance of boundaries as a result of nationalism. Between the end of wwii and 1980, the number of nations tripled, from about 60 to over. How did most of the colonized world win independence from european rule in the years. Contributed to the greater social good: education, medical care, etc. Shifted dynamics between european states and their empires. Strikes, demands, etc. asking for equality in the eyes of the government. Pushing for more investment, demand for more democratic rights. Rise of a new educated class in colonies. Offer education for a greater amount of people -> need to teach more teachers -> rise of new educated class. New educated class is much less willing to play by the same rules. Looks at the colonial government in a different set of eyes. Educated elites at the forefront of the demands for new government,