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History of Modern India
Title: History of Modern India
Category: History
Details: Words: 1440 | Pages: 6.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
History of Modern India
Mondern India
Diaz rounds cape of Good Hope in 1480's
Da Gama reaches India in 1490's
Asked by Indians what he had come for- "for christianity and spice"
A few christians lived in INdia, Portuguese wanted to protect them, but really wanted to convert
Spices were nto in INdia, but ti becomes a trading station on route to Spice islands, Indonesia
Obtain the island of Gao in 1510
Priests gain friends among Braihmins and are able …showed first 75 words of 1440 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1440 total…communist Chinese rule led by religious leaders
Dalai lama escapes and goes into exile
Chinese destroy 4,000 monestaries in 60's
Tibetans are still fighting for independance
Bhutan - mostly Bhotia ethnic group
call themselves Drukpas or Dragon people
Tibetan Buddhism / many monestaries
India and china fight over control
British attempts to control it
Eventually protected by the United Nations
Modernizes in 50's and 60's
still isolated today - keep people and stuff out - corruption like Disney and McDonalds
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