This lesson focuses on the historical skill of change/continuity.
Students ‘meet’ a series of characters, representing people whose lives were impacted in different ways by the arrival of the East India Company in the 1700s.
They are challenged to identify specific changes that were experienced by a zamindar (landlord); a Mughal official; a merchant; a farmer; a weaver; and a British East India Company officer. They categorise these changes, determining whether they relate to wealth; law and justice; culture and religion; and/or law and property.
Finally, students find out more about the long-term impacts of the arrival of the EIC in India, finishing with an engaging activity that challenges them to write a ‘status report’ on behalf of a Mughal official.
This is the final enquiry in the 8-lesson unit on the Mughal Empire. It helps to ‘round off’ the series of enquiries by developing students’ understanding of the empire’s decline and eventual collapse.
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