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East India Company Rule
A man named Robert Clive led the British troops on a succesful drive againts the french. He also won Bengal, India. He set up rulers that where in agreement with the East India Company. The rulers signed treates and granted power to the British. They took taxes (thanks the Mughal Emperor), set laws, and created court systems. -
The Sepoy Rebellion
The sepoys or the Indian troops in the British army. It all started from a rumor that the cartridges where greased with beef and pork fat. Becasue of their religion, culture, and laws, they (Hindus and Muslims) refused to fight or touch the guns and fought against the British. But the British ended it. -
Mohandas Gandhi (Principles and What He Fought For)
Gandhi was a middle class law student. He was a Hindu but also accepted and used other pracitices of other religions. For example, Love and nonviolent resistance. He believed that what the British rule was doing was wrong and so took some advice from Henry David Thoreau, about not following laws if you do not believe in them. He supported protest and boycotts. Lastly he led thousands of Indians to the coast to get salt form the see even though it was illegal at the time to do. -
Formation of the Indian National Congress
The people that formed this was wanting (of course) to set India free/change. Mixing different cultures and the one that was most effected was the INC or the Indian National Congress, which was set up in 1885. The Muslims began to gain concern creating the Musilim League. -
Muslim League
The Muslims became concerned about the INC when they started a "more forceful stand"in the new congress movement. After tension and distrust started to grow. -
Salt March
Gandi did not believe in the high taxes that the British put on salt, also that they where not allowed to make it. So he protested and brought thousands of others with him. They wen to the coast and they took salt from the sea. He was arrested along with 50,000 others. -
Quit India Campaign
The Quit India was led to by the British refusing them freedom, so they wanted freedom s they got Indian followers and just not coorperating with the British rule. -
Hindu- Muslm Conflict
The Hindu and Muslim conflict was that teh Muslims wanted there own nation and Gandhi wanted them to work together. They fought and dissagreed, also they didnt trust eachother. -
India Independence Act
In 1946 Muslims and Hindus broke out in a riot between them. The british soon relized that a civil are would break out of something was not done fast. So in 1947 the India Independence Act which ended the British rule and freed India. It seperated two independent nations, India and Pakistan. India is Hindu and Pakistan is Muslim dominated. -
Gandhi Assassination
In 1948 a man who was a Hindu extremist had thought that Gandhi had betray his own people, shot and killed him.
