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Soldiers heard that the cartridges of their new rifle were greased with beef and pork fat, which they weren’t able to eat but they had to bite off the ends of the cartridges; they were outraged by this news. They were imprisoned because they wouldn’t accept these cartridges. Soldiers then rebelled and marched to Delhi. Fighting took place and British fought against the sepoys.
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British government took direct command of India.
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Indian National Congress was founded
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Gandhi was on his way to Africa representing Indians who felt that they were not treated equally. He gave a speech about equality in front of many people and started to burn the Indian British passes. He got arrested for his actions.
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The province was too large to administrate so it got divided into a Hindu and Muslim section
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Muslim League was founded.
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British took back the order and divided the province in a different way.
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Gandhi goes around India to see how other live after returning from South Africa.
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Indian troops returned back from WWI and expected Britain to give them the government which they had promised. This didn’t happen and they were still treated as second-class.
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Gandhi under the request of a poor indian goes to help out some village and realizes that do not only need independance they also need to create equality for all the people. He saw how bad other Indians were living. He got arrested because of spreading Indias independance and British got mad.
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British passed the Rowlatt Acts. These laws allowed the government to jail protestors. They could impression them without a trial and as long as two years. This violated Indian rights.
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Amritsar Massacre was a protest of the Rowlatt Acts around 10,000 Hindus and Muslims were at a huge festival in an enclosed square, they intended to fats and pray as well listen to government speeches. This alarmed the British and British commander Amritsar ordered his troops to fire at the crowd 400 died and 1,200 were wounded.
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Gandhi gave a speech about gaining independence and that Hindu and Muslim must unite and work as one. He also established how they shouldnt buy British cloth and how the should burn what they have.
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A British woman moved to India to follow Gandhi, her name was Mirabehn.
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Congress party endorsed civil disobedience. public refusal to obey an unjust law. They would do nonviolent acts to achieve Independence. This was used to weaken the British government’s authority and economic power over India.
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Salt March was to show their opposition to buy British salt. They weren’t allowed to buy salt from any other source so they walked 240 miles to a seacoast. There they made their own salt.
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The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act. This was to provide self-government and some limited democratic elections, but not total independence.
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Britain committed Indian’s armed forces to WWI without consulting representatives. Gandhi created a nonviolent campaign of noncooperation with the British. Officials imprisoned numerous nationalists.
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British wanted India’s support in the war so they offered government changes but not India’s Independence.
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Fights between both groups broke out. This left 5,000 people dead and 1,500 wounded.
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British House of Commons passed an act that separated two nations, India and Pakistan, and independence in one months time.
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As people were on the move violence among the religious groups happened. An estimated of 1 million deaths in this time.
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India became world’s largest democracy and the first prime minister if India became Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Gandhi got shot and killed by a Hindu extremist who thought Gandhi was too protective of Muslims.
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United Nations ceased fire between India and Pakistan because they were fighting for control of the region
