DBQ Source Summaries: Responses to Colonial Rule
WORLD HISTORY PROJECT 1200 / LESSON 6.4ACTIVITYDBQ SOURCE SUMMARIES: RESPONSES TO COLONIAL RULEUnless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: “DBQ Source Summaries:Responses to Colonial Rule”, OER Project, https://www.oerproject.com/1Note to Teachers:Below are summaries of the sources in DBQ Sources:Responses to Colonial Rule. Theseare meantto provide you a quick understanding of the document types and content so you can decide which sources you want your students to use. You may choose to provide these summaries to your students as additional scaffolding.Source SummaryDocument 1 (Text)Source: “The Azamgarh Proclamation.” Delhi Gazette, 29 September 1857. Reproduced here: http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/Texts-Part2.html.The anonymous author, possibly a successor to the Mughal dynasty, implores people across India to join in the resistance of Sepoy soldiers against the Bri?sh East India Company. He offers rewards to those who support the rebellion, and warns of consequences for those who do not.Document 2 (Text)Source:Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. “The Revolt in the Indian Army.” New York Daily Tribune, 15 July 1857. Reproduced here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/07/15.htmThis excerpt is from an article by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The New York Daily Tribune.In this ar?cle, Marx and Engels describe causes of the Indian Revolt of 1857 as they understand them, as well as the connec?on between this rebellion and others around Asia. They focus specifically on the belief, among the Bengal army, that the Bri?sh East India Company was deliberately crea?ng policies to undermine their religious beliefs.Document 3 (Image)Source:“A pair of Gatling guns, 1879” from a photograph album compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Turner Anderson/Zulu War. National Army Museum, London, UK. Public domain. https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1989-10-2-58.The Gatling gun, created in 1862 by the American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling, was used as European empires aVempted to subdue colonized peoples throughout Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
WORLD HISTORY PROJECT 1200 / LESSON 6.4ACTIVITYDBQ SOURCE SUMMARIES: RESPONSES TO COLONIAL RULE2Source SummaryDocument 4 (Text)Source:This quote is from two sources. The first paragraph is from Aidoo, Agnes Akosua. “Asante Queen Mothers in Government and Politics in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria 9, no. 1 (1977): 1-13. The second paragraph is from Asante, Molefi Kete. The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony. New York: Routledge, 2019.This speech was given by Yaa Asantewaa (1840–1921) in March of 1900. Yaa Asantewaa was a queen mother, a powerful leader in the Asante (Ashanti) Empire in what is today Ghana.In these passages, the Asante queen Yaa Asantewaa appeals to the soldiers of her kingdom by ques?oning their masculinity, and poin?ng out the greed of the Bri?sh imperialists. She is specifically incensed by the Bri?sh demand for Asante’s Golden Stool, and offers to fight in place of her male warriors.Document 5 (Text)Source:Gandhi, Mohandas. Indian Home Rule. Phoenix, Natal, South Africa: International Printing Press, 1910.In this passage, Gandhi explains two aspects of Indian Home Rule, which laid out his views on Indian independence from Great Britain. The first of these he directs towards advocates for violent resistance to Bri?sh imperialism, and the other towards the Bri?sh themselves.Document 6 (Text)Source:Sunderland, Jabez T. “The New Nationalist Movement in India.”The Atlantic, October 1908. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1908/10/the-new-nationalist-movement-in-india/304893/.In this ar?cle, Sunderland outlines the devasta?on that Bri?sh rule has caused in India. Specifically, he points out that poverty, taxes, and famines have all drama?cally increased as a result of Bri?sh imperialism, and that the Indian Na?onalist Movement should appeal to all na?ons who support freedom and independence.
WORLD HISTORY PROJECT 1200 / LESSON 6.4ACTIVITYDBQ SOURCE SUMMARIES: RESPONSES TO COLONIAL RULE3Source SummaryDocument 7 (Text)Source:Lam, Truong Buu. Patterns of Vietnamese Response to Foreign Intervention, 1858–1900. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Reproduced here: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/vietnam/family_nation.pdf.This is an excerpt from a letter by Phan Ðình Phùng (1847–1896) to Huàng Cao Khải (1850–1933). The two Vietnamese scholars exchanged these letters in the 1890s while living under French rule.In this leVer to a fellow scholar, Lam laments the terrible effects of French coloniza?on on Vietnam. He also explains why what he’s witnessed and experienced through resis?ng the French con?nues to fuel himself and others in their struggle for independence.