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Once British got control of India, enabling British business ventures in the region and allowing the Company to control trade from the national to the local level.
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This period of British rule in India is known as the Raj. Two years after British took control India fought but was defeated by the British.
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The congress was able to govern India by a concensus, but years went on leading to Independence, the congress body was split by factionalism.
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The league proposed to have a separete state for Muslim population but got little support.
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Gandhi was protesting the British salt tax. He lead nearly 100 followers more than 200 miles to the ocean to extract free salt from the sea.
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Disputes between India and Pakistan are resolved from the 1947 British partitioning of India into two independent nations. The region's Muslim population were divided into East and West Pakistan, while Hindu areas became modern India.
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Many Pakistanis say the Kashmir region, with its majority Muslim population, belongs in their Islamic state. Indians, meanwhile, argue India has a legal right to the Kashmir territory.
India and Pakistan have been locked in a tense and often hostile rivalry. The two countries have fought three wars, with two centering on the Kashmir conflict. -
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a crazy Hindu, who thought Gandhi was to sympathetic toward Muslim population.
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Under the leadership of Nehru's India adopted a constitution and became a democracy.
