From Colonisation to Independence of British India

Abstract

The present work entitled "From Colonization to the Independence of British India" proposes to make known all the process that led to the colonization of India by the English. The encounter of cultures, situated in a time and a space, where British rule dictated the laws of human coexistence between two peoples and two cultures, testifies to the colonialist praxis that, over three centuries, the English ethnocentrically imposed on the Indians, whose negative discrimination made them the subjects of His Majesty's second class. The awareness of its humiliating situation, the emergence of new international winds that in the mid-twentieth century were favorable to the self-determination of peoples under the leadership of spiritual guides led India to inevitable decolonization. The declaration of independence came at a cost: Indians had to deal with a heavy British heritage, where establishing a physical and cultural boundary to accommodate Indians and Pakistanis might be feasible, in an equation acceptable to the Kashmir problem.