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India On The Move Case Study
“India on the Move”
Case Study

Bryan Menendez
Dr. Kundu
MAN 6606
September 13, 2014 Before the red coats arrived in the 19th century, India was a disintegrated spread of primitive sovereignties. Once the British began their cultural imperialistic acts, the populace felt robbed of their rights and authority to their own lives. Their birthrights and beliefs shined through a crusade of domestic rebellion guided by Mahatma Gandhi – “The father of independent India”. The Indians promoted the ideals of “swadeshi,” or self-sufficiency, and boycotted British’s commodities and services. Through persistence and resistance, Gandhi and the Indian people triumphed. After 25 years of constraint, Britain granted India full independence in 1947. Unfortunately, Gandhi couldn’t help all of India. Since the 1930s, acrimonious disagreements spurred between the Muslim League and the Hindu Indian National Congress. Two secular, democratic states now subdivided India – India and East and West Pakistan. Violence and bloodshed spawned between the Hindus and Muslims “…claiming more than 600,000 lives” as refugees moved to and from India. Rage germinated through their minds and Gandhi was left unheard. He believed in a unified secular country, but was ill fated. In January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist. Personal and religious vendettas were midst between Hindus and Muslims. Wars commenced over regions such as Kashmir, and Bangladesh (See Exhibit 1) in 1948, 1965, and 1971. In 1992, alleged Muslim invaders destroyed the Ayodhya temple. Riots broke out after the devastation of the Hindu temple, with an estimated death count of 2,000 people. In 2002, Muslim militants firebombed a train, which killed 58 Hindu activists returning from the Ajodhya site. Vengeance possessed extremist Hindus to murder an estimated 2,000 Muslims and left tens of thousands of people homeless in the state of Gujarat. After these unfortunate events, The Supreme Court

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