1 / 17

Table of Contents

Table of Contents . India’s Demographics 2.05 British East India Company 2.06 Battle of Plassey / Sati 2.07 MAKE UP WORK 2.07. Battle of Plassey / Sati ___ 2.07. Agenda: Do Now Notes / Video Reading Presentations Prep for Seminar TTL.

talen
Download Presentation

Table of Contents

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Table of Contents • India’s Demographics 2.05 • British East India Company 2.06 • Battle of Plassey / Sati 2.07 MAKE UP WORK 2.07

  2. Battle of Plassey / Sati ___2.07 Agenda: • Do Now • Notes / Video • Reading • Presentations • Prep for Seminar • TTL

  3. Pretend that you are a businessman in a foreign country. In this foreign country, it is acceptable for parents to forcibly tattoo / brand their children at an early age. Under United States law, this is domestic abuse / a grave form of child endangerment. Imagine that you are invited to attend a wedding party. At this party, a child is being tattooed and branded by his parents in front of the guests. a) What would you do? b) Would you be justified in asking the parents to stop? c) Would you be justified in using force to make the parents stop?

  4. Classwork for Thursday 2.07 (15 points) • DN / TTL (5 pts) • Presentations (5 pts) • Lecture Notes (5 pts)

  5. Mughal Empire • Muslim royal family that controlled India since the 1550s • Capital: Dehli • Starts to decline in power/influence, becomes weak • Appoints nawabs (Muslim governors) to rule individual states regions.

  6. Corporate Personhood • Concept that corporations should be legally considered as “people” w/ rights. • Corporations- like people- can be sued. • Corporations- like people- have the right to… • free speech • make money • own guns / hire soldiers • overthrow other gov’ts?

  7. Robert Clive • Famous BEIC employee and military general • Operated in Bengal (Bangladesh). • Overthrows the Mughal nawab in Bangladesh and takes it over for the BEIC.

  8. Sati • Watch the video and write a one-sentence explanation of what sati is:

  9. Options for Presentation • Powerpoint • Skit (might require further explanation) • Poster • Song (might require further explanation) MUST BE DONE IN 15 MINUTES

  10. How do they connect? After the British East India Company took over Bangladesh, it banned sati and executed Indians who forced women to burn themselves. It justified this by saying they were corporations- with the right to have armies/guns/do what they want.

  11. Homework (Due Friday 2.08) • Complete your preparations for the Socratic Seminar tomorrow. Please make sure that each response is filled out completely with a specific reason or details from your readings/presentations. • This will be collected.

More Related