Imperialism+Jigsaw+Projects+2D


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**Imperialism in India Script** 

__ INDIAN     __ So, here I stand. Who ever thought that I would be a part of such an intense political movement? As a child I was always afraid to speak up for what I believed in, yet I guess that that is how growing up in this time has influenced me. All through my life, I have seen how we, the Indians, are treated. I have seen how we are treated as second-class citizens in our own country of India.    And so we are protesting for our freedom. The freedom which they have denied us for so long. They have controlled how we trade, they have controlled how we speak, they have controlled our customs and they have even tried to control our language. But it has gone on for far too long. Now the time has come for us to fight back for what we believe.    Our ancestors rebelled for freedom, long ago when it became clear what kind of people the British were. How could they use cow and pig fat to seal the bullet caps of the bullets given to Muslims and Hindus? At best it is disrespectful and at worst it is offensive and utterly inexcusable.    This is why I am standing here as a member of the Indian National Congress, representing our people. We, along with the Muslim League will protest Britain for the self-government which they have denied us under their ruling.    **
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<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Ugh. So the Indians are asking for “self government”. Well, I guess it shouldn’t be much of a surprise – they really don’t know a good thing when they see it do they? Far from being grateful for giving them a taste of civilization, now that we’ve built them an entire transportation network and given them a taste of English culture they think they’re better than us. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I don’t know why I’m surprised really… I should have expected this kind of unreasonable behaviour from them by now. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Yet even though they are like this, we can’t very well allow them to just be independent! We have given them so much already, poured so much money into developing their country and modernizing it. Now we need them to follow our trading laws in order to help our economy recover from helping them, and from the Wars we have just experienced. Really, considering all that we have done for them, I don’t think that that should be a problem. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">But judging by their requests it seems to be the case, and we cannot allow it. Not after all the effort we have put into this. Not now. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">We will lose everything. Our power, our wealth and our trading market. Our people will be in disarray. No – India is the brightest jewel in our crown and we cannot allow it to be stolen from us. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> __ <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">INDIAN  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">   __<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Only yesterday I overheard two generals discussing the “innate superiority” of the British. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Innate superiority? <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I wanted to cry out in frustration when I heard such ignorance. The fact that we have different coloured skin and the fact that we have different cultural beliefs does not make us any lesser than them. Despite what they may believe, we are their equals, and we too are humans with our own rights. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Yet as I approached them, heart thumping at thought of what consequences my subsequent words would have, I saw in their eyes something that made me stop. In his glasses that flickered towards me as I approached, I saw my own reflection. I saw how I must look to them. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">A commoner. A Hindu. Someone – no – something, which is so trivial that only a momentary glance is required. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Not once did they think that I may understand them – for why should they think we are educated enough to comprehend their words. And now I understand that I cannot do anything to change their minds. I am as sure that their feeling towards us will never change as I am sure that my prejudice against them will never waver. It is a prejudice that is so deep rooted that no amount of words can change it, and it has been with me for as long as I can recall. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">People still tell stories about how they first came. The date was sometime in the 1600s if I remember correctly. They came and drove out our Mughal rulers, which I personally am quite thankful for, although the Muslims do not see it that way. Obviously, since the Mughals favoured them. Even though we were outraged at the seizure of our country, no one could have foreseen what was going to happen. How could we have known when they were building those railroads what a lasting damage they would have on our economy. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Then they brought in British goods, and then imposed those trading regulations. Completely preposterous. How could they possibly expect us not to compete with the British imports? It is the same as asking us to shut down our manufacturing businesses for good, since there can be no business without a market. The only business there is a market for is agriculture. Well, evidently, since that market is Britain. Yes, they buy all of our raw materials… tea, coffee, indigo, cotton,  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">   <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">opium… But the price they buy them at – it barely compensates for the materials themselves, let alone the labour that has gone into producing them. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Since we cannot compete with British imports, everyone has gone into agriculture. And it makes no sense that the product we import the most from Britain is cotton. The country that made a living from producing cotton is now buying cotton from the country that at took cotton away from it. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I guess that’s what you call irony. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> __ <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">BRITISH  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">   __<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">India was one of our greatest conquests. We defeated France and the Dutch in order to take full control of that nation. Some may question whether it was worth so much trouble, but what a foolish question that would be. India had the raw resources we needed and an extremely large number of people to market our finished products to. We saw the enormous economic potential, and we were proved right. Again. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Obviously, once we had control of India we had to reap some benefit from it, and so the trading laws were a necessity really. And I must say that they are really working. We are profiting so much from trading Indian raw materials with other countries, and when it comes down to it, that’s the point isn’t it? <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Profit. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">It’s not like we have anything to feel bad about, so what if some of their jobs are gone. It makes no difference whether those Indians work on farms or in businesses – its not as though they were going to make anything of themselves anyway. They will never and can never be better – it is just inherently like that. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">And they owe us anyway. Not only did we build them railroads, hospitals and schools, but we also taught them about civilized culture. Attempted to anyway. They may not have wanted it but we showed them the right path. We tried to show them Christianity and we told them how wrong their practices are. I mean infanticide? It’s beyond inhumane. It just shows the difference between us and them. They need us. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Don’t they see what kind of nation they will become if they gain independence? <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Are they really so blind? <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> __ <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">INDIAN  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">   __<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Now the land that was built upon culture and traditions is disintegrating right before me. Because of the British rule there are Indians abandoning our inherent beliefs and traditions and going around advising adopting the Western ways. In fact many are saying this now, but I am not one of them. I am a traditional sort of person, and I cannot approve of how India is becoming. I can see the benefits of modernization to a certain extent: improved transportation and greater efficiency in living. However are these factors worth giving up on our country? <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">They cannot compare to the damage Britain has done. Look at how Indians are being treated in their own country. Look at how the British tried to take away our culture. Look at how our economy had deteriorated so that it no longer profits us and only profits Britain. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">We will get our freedom this time. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> __ <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">BRITISH  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">   __<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Many of them are adapting our culture now – since it obviously is superior. We modernized India and made it civilized. We are rescuing the nation whilst benefitting our own country’s economy. We defeated them many decades ago and we have had power over them ever since. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">They will not gain independence. <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **
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