The Management of Grief | Historical Context
Postcolonial India
Great Britain began colonizing India in the middle of the eighteenth century and spent the next two hundred years trying to secure military and economic control of the area. The colonization was never peaceful, and in April 1919 British troops fired into a crowd killing or wounding over one thousand Indians. In 1920, Mohandas Gandhi began his famous campaigns of civil disobedience ending in 1947 with India's independence from Britain. The India of 1947 and after is referred to as postcolonial India. Mukherjee was seven years old when India gained her...
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