Indian Nationalism Timeline

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  • 1850

    The British Government controlled all of India. The indians didnt liked that

  • 1857

    1857
    Sepoy Mutiny: Sepoys (soldiers) rebelled and marched to Delhi. This rebellion spread to northern and central India. British and sepoys tried to kill each other’s armies. This made the British more racist against them.

  • 1858

    The British government took control of India. British said that the states that were still free would stay independent, however they began to take control of those states unofficially.

  • 1885

    1885
    Indian Congress Party is founded

  • 1906

    1906
    Muslim League is founded.

  • 1915

    Arrived to Bombay after being in prison from England

  • 1918

    Indian troops returned home from the war, they were still being treated as second-class citizens. Citizens were not happy about this, and therefore began using violence to show their hatred over the rule.

  • 1919

    1919
    -Amritsar Massacre, British soldiers fired on a crowd of Indians that were unarmed. Killed several hundreds and lots of wounded. Civil disobedience started.
    -Rowlatt Act: Stated that the government was allowed to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years.

  • 1920

    1920
    Gandhi started a noon cooperation campaign to stop using British products like cloth, and instead people bought homemade Indian products. English economy in India goes down because of this

  • 1921

    Gandhi insisted that there should be no violence in India against the British troops, this was an anti violent movement.

  • 1922

    1922
    Gandhi started to fast for the first time because the Indians were fighting back the British Government, Gandhi wanted to violence at all.

  • 1930

    1930
    Salt Acts: Indians could only buy salt from the British. Gandhi an lots of other people walked hundreds of miles. This peaceful protest was called Salt March.

  • 1935

    British Parliament passed the Government of India Act

  • 1939

    1939
    World War 2 starts, Gandhi needed to stop for a while his protests because they were at war.

  • 1942

    1942
    Gandhi is inprissoned for the second time.

  • 1944

    Gandhi's wife dies, he is allowed to go to her funerall but then afterwards returned to jail.

  • 1947

    India becomes independent from England

  • 1948

    Gandhi dies, HIndu shoots him.