Importance: Under Jahangir’s rule, both Muslims and Hindus were tolerated in India. Persian culture, especially, was incorporated into the culture, the influences of which can still be seen today. The arts also flourished. However, Jahangir had several skirmishes with Sikhs, as several other Indian leaders, like Indira Gandhi, did.

Aurangzeb: A Mughal emperor whose actions started the decline of the Mughal Empire.

Importance: Aurangzeb expanded the territory of the Mughal Empire while he was emperor, expanding to its greatest size. However, unlike his tolerant predecessors, Aurangzeb persecuted Indians who were not Sunni Muslims like himself. Tensions built up from Hindus and Sikhs when they were taxed, forbidden influential government positions, and deprived of their temples. These tensions led to rebellions and riots, which were one of the major factors in the decline of the Mughal Empire.

Taj Mahal: A mausoleum built by India’s Mughal emperor Shah Jahan from 1632-1643 to honor his wife.

Importance: The Taj Mahal represents the melding of Muslim and Hindu beliefs during the Mughal Empire. However, the people of the empire were taxed heavily for the construction of the Taj Mahal and other extravagances during Shah Jahan’s reign. The riots that resulted from these taxes eventually led to the decline of the Mughal Empire. Also, during their Indian occupation, the British showed little regard for the Taj Mahal and other components of Indian culture, and sometimes even chipped pieces of the tomb off for souvenirs.

East India Company: A British trading company that Britain used to carry out imperialism in India.

Importance: The East India Company was Britain’s first step on the way to imperialism in India. The company encouraged Indian farmers to grow cash crops like cotton instead of food, and then sell the cash crops to Britain. This made India dependent on Britain for food and for manufactured goods like textiles. By taking control of Indian trade and economy, the British are in effect taking over the entire country.

Sepoy Rebellion: A rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India in the mid-nineteenth century.

Importance: The Sepoy rebellion resulted from oppressive British rule. When the British wanted Hindu and Muslim soldiers to go against the particular beliefs of their religions about pork and beef, it sparked a violent uprising against the British. Both sides suffered large casualties from the rebellion, and extreme brutality was seen from both the British and the Indians. When the fighting was over, the British responded by abolishing the rule of the East India Company and instead ruling directly over India.

Amritsar Massacre: An event in which British troops fired on a large crowd of peaceful, unarmed Indian protestors, killing some 400 people; it led to a campaign of protest led by Gandhi.

Importance: The Amritsar Massacre was the last straw for many Indians. It finally convinced the majority of the population that British occupation had to end in India. Indians realized that they needed to run their own government, one that wouldn’t massacre peaceful, unarmed demonstrators. With the nationalist enthusiasm ruffled up from the massacre, Gandhi started to organize protests and boycotts of Britain.

Nationalism: Sense of pride and devotion to one’s nation.

Importance: After years of British imperialism, Indians wanted to rule their own country again, and so started a campaign of nationalism. Reformers like Gandhi led the people in protests against British goods and people. The Indian’s nationalism for their country eventually drove the British out of India, and it prompted India to form a government of its own.

Indian National Congress: A major political party in India; founded in 1885 to press for greater rights for Indian sunder British rule, it later became one of the main forces calling for Indian independence.

Importance: The Indian National Congress was an organization formed to promote nationalism, and its goal was to retake India from the British. At first, its requests of the imperialist government were humble, but as nationalism grew more popular, the Indian National Congress announced its goal. After Britain announced that it planned to partition Bengal, the Indian National Congress rallied Indians in a protest of British goods. This was a major factor in the British ending their rule in India.

Muslim League: A political group founded in 1906 to protect the rights of Indian Muslims; it later became one of the main forces calling for Indian independence and a separate nation for Indian Muslims.

Importance: The Muslim League was the first official sign of disagreement between Muslims and Hindus. Many Muslims in India were growing concerned that the new government would be Hindu-dominant, and Muslims wouldn’t have any control in it. Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Muslim League wanted a partition of India. They were eventually granted a separate country, Pakistan.

Gandhi: An Indian reformer who advocated nonviolent protest of British rule.

Importance: Gandhi was the driving force behind nationalism in India. He first coined the phrase Satyagraha, and completely encompassed the nonviolent ideals in his protests of Britain. However, Gandhi did not support the Partition of 1947; he seemed to know, somehow, of the violence that would ensue from the partition. Gandhi himself was a victim of the violence: a warped Hindu assassinated him for his tolerance of Muslims.

Satyagraha: A technique of nonviolent resistance coined by Gandhi.

Importance: Satyagraha was what differentiated the Indian nationalist movement from other movements of its kind previously. Instead of violently rebelling, Gandhi and his followers peacefully and sensibly boycotted British rule, in a way that appealed to the imperialist country’s human nature. Satyagraha was an effective way of ending imperialism in India, and it was mirrored in other protests throughout the world. Unfortunately, the principles of Satyagraha were not followed during the Partition of 1947 and the violence that ensued.

Jawaharlal Nehru: India’s first prime minister after the Partition of 1947.

Importance: As the first leader of the primarily Hindu India, Jawaharlal Nehru emphasized unity and democracy after a time of violence and imperialism. Under his rule, India improved treatment of women, the poor, and the lower castes. He also encouraged modern technology as used in agriculture and industry, which stimulated India’s poor economy. Jawaharlal Nehru basically created a new, stable government, which was necessary in the political and economical turmoil that would follow his rule.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah: A leader of the Muslim League who advocated the Partition of 1947.

Importance: As the British weakened their hold on India, Hindu politicians began to gain power in the government. The minority Muslim population in India began to worry that, in the new government, Muslims would be underrepresented and discounted. It was this fear that prompted Muhammad Ali Jinnah to call for a partition of India, for a separate Muslim country. Though he could not have known it at the time, his paranoia would lead to the eventual death of millions of people in the Partition of 1947.

Indira Gandhi: A prime minister of India known for her violence with Sikhism. 

Importance: The daughter of her predecessor Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi was the first female prime minister in Indian history, which promoted the role of women in Indian society. She was an able leader, but she faced insurgence from a band of militant Sikhs. When they occupied a temple in Amritsar, Indira Gandhi had the Sikhs killed. This led Indira’s Sikh bodyguards to assassinate her, which in turn led to a wave of anti-Sikh violence in India.

Partition of 1947: A division of India into two separate Muslim (Pakistan) and Hindu (India) countries.

Importance: Though Gandhi was vehemently opposed to it, the British felt creating a partition would be the best way to quell sectarian violence between Muslims and Hindus after they left. They established East and West Pakistan, and all members of each religion were encouraged to relocate to their respective sides. The British did not, however, anticipate the violence that accompanied the Partition of 1947: millions of people died, and countless more were injured or abused, as a result of violence between traveling Muslims and Hindus.

Kashmir: A region located near the border of India and Pakistan.

Importance: During the Partition of 1947, the British drew up hasty boundaries between Muslim territory and Hindu territory. One disputed boundary was the one that divided Kashmir. Both India and Pakistan held a claim to Kashmir, and soon violence broke out between the two sides to determine the rightful owner of the land. Though an official boundary line, called the Line of Control, was drawn separating Kashmir into two sides, violence and propaganda still occur between Muslims and Hindus over the territory.

Nonalignment: A state of refusal to ally with either side of a dispute.

Importance: During the Cold War, India was one of the countries that chose to be nonaligned, and did not take America’s or Russia’s side in the dispute. Instead, it remained neutral. In this way, India was able to receive aid from both countries. In a time of economic instability and failure, the help of both America and Russia was needed, and India couldn’t afford to lose the support of one of the superpowers.

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The city has the basic facilities to serve tourists visiting the place. The area has high biodiversity (ecosystems, species and genetic material of great importance), natural beauty and an indigenous population comprising different ethnic groups that make up one of the attractions of great interest to foreign and domestic tourists, tourism in the area has been increasing each year, which has determined that the use of resources is orderly and responsible to lead to an acceptable conservation of these resources, you should also mention that the authorities committed to the sector have been forced to provide better quality tour packages, giving priority to ecological tourism, promoting the conservation of areas important to exploit its resources.

The city’s cuisine is based on the variety of fish, forest and wild animals and insects in their area, which are prepared with a variety of dishes, among which will name the Inchicapi, the John, sarapatera,Tacacho, timbuche, the patarashca, the jerky, the girl juane, among other delicacies typical of the forest.

Another places to visit near the city is Lake Cushillococha, located 6 km south of Caballo and near the borders with Colombia and Brazil for only 3 hours drive. In the dry season is accessible on foot from Caballococha, in time of increasing the lake is accessed only by river. This lake is a tributary of the Amazon River, where you can do canoeing, hiking, fishing or swimming. Its waters, relatively dark and up to 8 m deep, are rich in various dolphin species such as gray and red (river dolphin), shad, and yulilla boquichico. Along its banks live Cushillococha native community, an ethnic Ticuna, who are engaged in subsistence agriculture, hunting, gathering and fishing are also skilled craftsmen and manufacture fiber and JICRA chambira hammocks, woven bags species chambira fiber.

Please make eco-tourism and enjoy the scenic beauty of the jungle, Caballococha welcomes you with its charm and simplicity of its people.

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For the presentation of this viewpoint we chose two astronauts, Buzz Aldrin, one of the crew of Apollo 11 astronaut John Herrington first native owned by the Chickasaw tribe, they were the first to enjoy this experience. The ideologue of this platform is the construction businessman David Jin, who in 1996 reached agreement with the Hualapai tribal chief, for the construction of this platform, which costs $ 30 million, the deal was simple, he builds in his territory and then transfers ownership to them, to use the platform as a source of income and Jin receives 25 percent of the profits from tourism.

The walk along the platform costs $ 25, to which there is the parking and the obligatory visit to the souvenir shop. Attraction is expected to receive more than half a million tourists each year.

The controversy has erupted regarding the safety and architectural work and its location in Indian Territory. But the architect Mark Johnson came forward and ensures that the viewpoint is designed to support the weight of several hundred people and dealing with winds of 160 kilometers per hour, is therefore a miracle of architecture and not of nature, But some criticize the inclusion of a foreign element to the landscape.

Travelers wishing to take a walk through this platform, should muster courage to face up to the heights and the feeling of emptiness, because the platform is constructed of glass from which you can see the canyon floor from a height much higher than the tallest buildings in the world.

Tribal leaders expect the Skywalk to become the centerpiece of a tourism industry that includes helicopter tours, rafting on the rapids of the Colorado River, a cowboy town and a museum of Indian replica homes. It’s worth a walk by it, the views are incredible and the photos that can be done to the memory of an unforgettable trip.

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