roman’s blog

So as I further probe into the research question I am surprised about how useless proquest is in providing useful sources. I normally find decent articles on it but since my question is quite general I am not seeing anything that would directly apply to my question. The articles I can find are either addressing economic or gender and religious associations of the time period and not necessarily about how they were influenced by the British Raj. But I have found a few and they address the events leading up the independence in India from Britain in 1947.  One specifically addresses and includes Gandhi and the ‘Great Salt March’ in which Gandhi and 78 followers walked 240 miles to the Arabian Sea to make salt which was illegal to make or sell without an outrageous taxes. This was all done in protest against the British Empire, which at this time had full control of India and was funding its own interests by over-taxing basically everything sold to the Indians, and all the goods they made as skilled workers such as silk. But its was under direct British rule that that India benefited as well, and we see the installation of the first railroads as a means of transporting goods and ‘beefing up’ the economy. Not the mention, the introduction of western social rights and legal systems. But I have been careful in observing that while there were railroads and such built, very little was gained by the Indians themselves as their was no trickle-down-effect. Thus making huge profits for the English traders, but nothing for the Indians.