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1857
-Gossip spread among the sepoys, the Indian soldiers, that the cartridges of their new Enfield rifles were greased with beef and pork fat. Both Hindus, who consider the cow sacred, and Muslims, who to not eat pork, were outraged by the news. -The sepboys rebelled. -
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1857-1948
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East India
East India company was leading power in India. The British government took direct command of India. -
Nationalism
Nationalism led to the founding of two nationalist groups, the Indian National Congress in 1885. -
Extra events - Indian National Conference
Educated middle class nationalists founded the Indian National Conference. Their goal was to have a greater voice in how India was governed. -
The Muslim league
The Muslim League in early 1906. -
Extra event - Morley-Minto
The Indian National Conference led the Morley-Minto. The reform lead to each province of India having its own governor. -
After the war
Indian troops returned home from the war. They expected Britain to fulfill its promise. Instead, once again they were treated as second-class citizens.Radical nationalists carried out acts of violence to show their hatred of the British rule. -
Extra event - nationalism
Nationalism within Indi was intensified. -
Rowlatt Acts
The British passed the Rowlatt Acts. These laws allowed the government to jail protesters without a trial for as long as two years. To Western-educated Indians, denial of a trial by jury violated their individual rights. -
Civil Disobedience
The Congress Party endorsed civil disobedience, the deliberate and public refusal to obey unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence. -
Salt March
Gandhi organized a demonstration to defy the hated Salt Acts. According to these British laws, Indians could buy salt from no other source but the government. They also had to pay sales tax on it. To show their opposition, Gandhi and his followers walked about 240 iles to the seacost, this peaceful protest was called the Salt March. -
India Act
The British Parliment passed the Government of India Act. It provided self government and limited democratic elections, although it was not total independence. -
Indian Independence
Indian Independence Act 1947. This act consisted of the Parliment of the UK that partitioned British India into two new and independent dominions of India and Pakistan. -
Assasination
Horrible catastrophe emerged in January 30, 1948. Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated by an Hindu nationalist, Nathuram Godse.
