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Rowlatt Acts
Law allowed for the British government to jail indian protesters with no trial needed which violated indian individual rights. -
Amritsar Massacre
Unknowingly, Indians had a meeting in Amritsar to protest Rowlatt Acts which was not allowed. British shot many which angered Indias for a need for independence -
Mohandas K. Ghandi
Ghandi became leader of the independence movement. He used a religious strategy. -
Civil Disobedience
The congress party endorsed the disobedience which was a public refusal to listen to any laws and nonviolence. -
Salt March
Ghandi and his followers walked many miles to get evaporated salt from seawater to oppose the British. -
British allows for Limited Self-Rule
India act passed by the British Parliament which allowed for india to have a limited self-rule -
British debts
British suffered large war debts from World War 2 so they contemplated keeping India under its power because it would be too expensive to maintain and govern the distant colonies. As a result British allowed for India’s independen -
British house of Commons Act Passed
The British house of Commons passed an act that allowed for India and Pakistan’s independence in one month.