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Response Essay - Questions Regarding Bose

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Assignment For this tutorial, please discuss the following questions in your IVLE discussion group. Each of the questions will be posted separately, so you can easily access each one. Please be aware that this will be a shortened discussion period, compared to the first time. The discussion will begin on 06 October, and end at 10.00 pm on 14 October. Please feel free to post your thoughts on the reading and questions. As this is a discussion', please be sure to check back on your groupmates' postings, and comment on them. Question One Bose uses very strong anti-colonial rhetoric (persuasive language) with regard to the British. Provide some examples, and do you think this portrayal of the British colonial influence in India is fair? Response This question can be split into two parts. The first deals with the anti-colonial rhetoric being used against the British, while the second deals with the portrayal of the British colonial influence in India had been accurate. Of the first, the anti-colonial rhetoric could be seen as Bose talks about how this is "the army that will emancipate India from the British yoke is already thing of the past . He further explicates on this in his second speech in 1944 as Bose proclaims that as the British were engaged in multiple fronts, they had been given a "rare a god-given opportunity  that could be utilized in "liberating our motherland from the British yoke . He also alludes to the idea that the battle they have against the British is a just one, and urges his compatriots to have one desire; "the desire to die so that India may live." On the second issue, I would think that Bose is understandably frustrated towards Crown rule in India. India has for a “significant period of time- long been under foreign influence, which included the Dutch, British and French. For a period of time, the Dutch East Indies (a private company) was also in charge of large parts of Northern India. In 1858, India formally came under direct British rule

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