DEBATE TOPIC: Should India be divided

INDIA RESEARCH

DEBATE TOPIC: Should India be divided??

GROUP RESEARCH RESPONSIBILITIES:

Each student will receive 2 grades for the research portion of the project, a peer evaluation and a teacher evaluation. Your peers will evaluate you on overall contribution to the group research and the teacher evaluation will be on your on task focus during the research, notes on subject, and sources sited.

Below you will need to decide which person in your group will research each category of information. Since most of you have 6-7 people in each group, there will be two people researching most of the categories. On the lines provided make sure you write the group members responsible for conducting the research.

______ Research the leader of your group. You should include:

Birthplace, background, religion
Philosophy of India’s future
Past experience with British rule of India
3 Quotes—
Shows personal philosophy
Belief in partition
Shows how he’ll be remembered

______ Research the religion of each group. Include:

Basic Beliefs
Show where this religion is located in India/Pakistan
How does the religion play a role in partition
How do these differ? How are they the same?

______ Research India at the time of partition. Include:

British colonization (when began/extent)
Taxes/sanctions against India and results
Local government (type and leaders)
Civil War

______ Research the opposition’s view of partition. Include:

Their proposal
Why they wanted what they wanted
Position of the leader
Why does your side disagree with this view?

Once you have decided who will research each part, you will be ready to actually start your research. You have available to you many resources in the library. Encyclopedias are always good to use as well as a selection of books that have been pulled just for us. In addition to the books, you may search the below sites for more information. Please remember that you need to keep a running list of where you found all of your information.

General Sites:

nettrekker.com

Gandhi Sites:

http://www.mkgandhi.org/

http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/gandhi.htm

Nehru Sites:

http://education.yahoo.com/search/be?p=nehru

http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/nehru.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru

http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/nehru.htm

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/Nehru-J1a.asp

Quotes http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jawaharlal_Nehru/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947nehru1.html