Growth of Nationalism — Part 1: Exploitation, Repression and the Press: visual lesson, ICSE Class 10 History & Civics (H.C.G. Paper 1)

Lesson

Why did Indians begin to feel like one nation?

Part 1 — economic exploitation, repressive policies and the Press.

In this lesson you will

Explain how the drain of wealth, the ruin of crafts and peasant distress fed nationalism
Describe the Vernacular Press Act, the Arms Act and the Ilbert Bill controversy
Explain how the Press spread political awareness

Part 1 at a glance

Diagram

Four streams that fed one national feeling.

Exploitation, repression, reform and the Press all fed national feeling.

Diagram

The drain, as the early nationalists described it.

Wealth flowed to Britain without an equal return, as Dadabhai Naoroji argued.