india
First World War
- 800,000 indian soldiers serve
- 1917 - India should be self governed
- 1919 - government of india act
- 2 votes - Hindu - Muslim - Sikh
- 1918 Rowlatt act is passed. Significant! - Amritsar - jail protesters
- Riots - 4 europeans killed - whites
- Amritsar - 379 people killed - 1200 injured
- Mohandas K Gandhi - Mahatma - able to go to school - wanted to be a lawyer
- Gandhi finds himself in South Africa - defends the rights of indians
- 1915 Gandhi returned to india
- 1921 - Indian National Congress (INC)
- Gandhi thinks Britain is the problem - Civil disobedience
- 400 million indians 200 thousand colonial
- Told to not do what Britain says
- Salt Act - Salt March - 1930
- Gandhi believed in Egalitarian society - Muslims and Hindus work together
- Biggest problem was Hindus - Muslims began to splinter - Jinnah
- Post Second World War
- Muslims - Mohammed Jinnah
- Hindus - Nehru
- 1948 - Pakistan Resolution, Land of pure, Muslim country
- Partition of India - 600,000 people killed during the migration
- Ghost trains of India“A fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry - India historical book
- Hunger Strikes
- Gandhi murdered a Hindu extremist
- India Industrializes - India + Pakistan
- 1948 Kashmir Plebiscite
- 1965 war
- India remains neutral
- 1947 - 80 $9 billion dollars received from the US
- Pakistan though was in trouble and erupts into civil war - 1970
- East Pakistan turns into bangladesh
- 1980 - Indira Gandhi becomes president of India - Sikh - population growth
- North - Punjab - Guru - 27 million - Khalistan
- Militant - Chandigarh - Amritsar - Golden Temple
- 1984 - Gandhi acts and hundreds are killed as she attacks golden temple
- Bodyguards of Gandhi assassinated her because of attack on golden temple
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"- Mahatma Gandhi
What if the British had never controled India? How different would it be?
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Murder - Freedom - Maltreatment
1. Would india be more stable and happy if it was never colonized by Britain.
2. What would have happened if East Pakistan was never created?
"We are not an Elephant, we are a beehive. Which is more stronger the elephant or the beehive" -Gandhi
Murder - Freedom - Maltreatment
1. Would india be more stable and happy if it was never colonized by Britain.
2. What would have happened if East Pakistan was never created?
"We are not an Elephant, we are a beehive. Which is more stronger the elephant or the beehive" -Gandhi