How Long to Read Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E.

How Long Does it Take to Read Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E.?

It takes the average reader and 48 minutes to read Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E. by Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 1846 C.E., when they had defeated the Sikh nation of Punjab, the officers of the British East India company found themselves in charge of a vast tract of land inhabited by a proud people with a history of surviving political and religious oppression. The Khalsa Sikhs, the order of "saint-soldiers" founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 had weathered Mughal oppression and rebounded from two ghallugharas, or "holocausts" (1746 and 1762). When the Sikh confederacy was joined together by Maharaja Ranjeet Singh in 1801, it governed a domain the size of France. The Punjab was the last part of the Indian subcontinent to fall to the British, and two short years later, the Khalsa would rise again for a second Anglo-Sikh war (1848-49) before settling in, mostly, as loyal vassals of the British Crown.Badges of Bondage is an account of how the British managed to rule their Punjabi Sikh subjects for one hundred years. It is a story of their stratagems to diminish the beliefs and practices of their subjects, while presenting their own doctrines of government, education and government, together with their race, culture and religion, as inherently superior. It is an historic account of self-assured agents of a Western power encountering a culture and people unlike any they had known: the Sikhs with their legendary thirst for fairness and their unmatched resilience in the face of adversity. This book, first published in 1996 and now updated and illustrated with historic photos and paintings, is a story of the successes and failures of the British to cow the Sikhs into subservience. It is also the account of a spiritual nation that at times stood as one against schemes and strategies employed by their rulers and their stooges to prolong British dominance of the people of south Asia, by far the richest and most important part of their global empire.Finally, this book is a preliminary assessment of long term effects, past India's proclamation of independence in 1947, of British rule on the habits, psyche and self-concept of Sikhs living today.

How long is Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E.?

Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E. by Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa is 47 pages long, and a total of 12,079 words.

This makes it 16% the length of the average book. It also has 15% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E. Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 6 minutes to read Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E. aloud.

What Reading Level is Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E.?

Badges of Bondage : the Conquest of the Sikh Mind, 1847-1947 C.E. is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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