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Brithish begins presence in India
Britain begins presence when East India Company began to open trading posts in the north -
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East India Company's years of control in India
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Transformation of East India's trading posts to Sepoys
Sepoys were forts used for training Indian soldiers. These soldiers were led by British officials. East India Company allied with other emperors and rulers that neeeded help from their naval and military Sepoys. -
!857 Sepoy Rebellion
Sepoys rose up to take down British officials. Emperors, maharajs, and peasants helped the uprising as well because of lost land and the presense of Britain. British put down the revolt using 10,000 troops. -
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British Raj Period
After revolt against Sepoy's, Britain impsed a monarchy but kept away from India's territories that remained indapendent.
.India became biggest bureaucracy
.bureaucracy- government officials are separated into departments and work under higher rule (somewhat of a puppet rule)
.Indian Civil Service- preformed governmental jobs (mostly British people)
.segregation
. British imposed tariff on textiles -
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Mohandas Gandhi lives
.Gandhi did not like British rule
.studied law in Britain at young age, and did legal training in Indian firm
.1914- Ghandi became part of the Indian National Congress
.did not partake in anti-British riots (and such) until the Amritsar Massacre happened -
Founding the Indian National Congress
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britain's division of Bengal
.Bengal- northeastern India
.separated into two provinces
.Hindu's mad about Muslim population (thought they were trying to decrease the Hindu's power)
.Boycott of British goods -
Formation of the All-India Muslim League
.Eliete Muslims created the All-india Muslim League to create equal power between Muslim's and Hindu's
.Hindu dominant
.wanted to protect Muslim rights -
Reunification of Bengal
.British restored power of Bengal
.Gave more power back to the Indian National Congress
.Muslim's felt betrayed -
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World War 1 in India
.300,000 Indian troops helped overseas
.3 million Indians served on major fronts
.Indians helped Allied Powers on Western Front (fought against Ottoman's)
.Also gave money for war efforts (maharajas)
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Massacre at Amritsar
.Ghandi launched a general strike against unfair governmental laws
.Indian leaders (nationalists leaders in Punjab) ought back
.ritain fired on them which leed to the strike with 10,000 on a square
.Around 400 protestors dead with more than 1,000 wounded -
Gandhi's first Satyagraha Movement
.Gandhi announced anti-British noncooperation
.Boycott
.wanted freedom for India
.Indians used civil disobedience to fight British power
.Ghandi told followers to fight with "truth" -
Gandhi's second Satyagraha Movement
.After Ghandi went to jail for 2 years and dropped out of politics, he began the Salt March (after Britain did not grant India the dominion status)
.Gandhi and his followers walked 240 miles finding salt which was heavily taxed for the people of India
.60,000 arrests including Gandhi -
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World War 2 (India)
.Britain declared India's war on Germany
.India's congress resigned (in protest)
.Britain resisted another uprising
.Muslims asked British for a separate nation
.Britain created two separate nations: India and Pakistan- mass migration -
Independence for India and Pakistan
. British India turned into- Pakistan and India
