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East India Company Rule
The East India Company was given monopoly privileges over all of the trades with the East Indies. They began to set up factories and eventually trading posts on the coasts of India. They ended up ruling the majority of India. -
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Events Leading Up To The Partition Of India
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The Sepoy Revolution
They began their rebellion because the British troops were going to make the Sepoys travel over seas and they were lacing the new cartridges with beef and pork fat. They were mad because those things were against their religion. -
Mohandas Ghandi (Principles and What He Fought For)
He believed in civil disobediance, which means that you do not obey unjust laws. He believed in Hindu beliefs and some Christian traditions, -
Formation of the Indian National Congress
A party that tried to give the Hindu Indians a voice in the British Empire in India. -
Formation Of Muslim League
A party that gave the Muslims a voice during the British Empire in India. -
Salt March
When the British did not allow the Indians to produce salt anymore, Ghandi started on a march toward the ocean. On his march, he gathered up 50,000 people. They began to collect and produce salt once they got to the ocean. All 50,000 people got arrested including Ghandi. -
Quit India Campaign
It was a civil disobiance movement started in India in responce to Ghandi's call for independance. The Indians demanded an orderly withdrawl of the British from India. -
Hindu-Muslim Conflict
The Muslims became a minority in India and they feared that all of their rights would be disrespected. The Muslim leader wanted a seperate nation. All of the religious differences led to fights and clashes. -
Indian Independance Act
The British Parliment passes this to end the rule of Britian in India. It also led to the split of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan. -
Ghandi Assassinated
Ghandi did not like the violence that was happening and didn't celebrate India's independace day and was eventally shot by a Hindu extremist.
