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All hopes of major political change was descouraged in 1917 when Britain declared it would maintain control of India as a part of Britains empire.
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Britain incresed opression of Indian people after they were forced to raise arms on a group of Indian protestors
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Thanks to Ganhi the Congress gains mass support by all types of Indian peoples
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women gain the right to run for office among other political rights between 1923-1930
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Major cash crop profits were cut in half diminishing income and lifestyle of people all accross India
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Gandhi and his followers marched to the indian ocean and made salt from it braking britsh law. in response the british killed 102, injured 420, and jailed 60,000 protestors and resistors.
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name of Pakistan is coined by punjabi muslim student
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Sir Chhotu Ram creates the great agricultural caste of Jats ( created of the 3 major religious groups) and won the elections of 1937. but the congress gained 70% of the popular vote
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The muslim League moves the lahore resolution demanding an autonomous, in the majority muslim areas
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WW2 ends creating massive shift in british government.
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The first arrival of the British cabinet in India
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Direct Action Day by muslim league resulting in riots all over the city of Calcutta in the Bengal province of British India
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Election of the constituent assembly: Set up as a result of negotiations between the Indian leders and the members of the British cabinet mission
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Indian Indapendance Act is passed in Pakistan and India granting the intependance from total Britsh reign.
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Gandhi funeral and griefGandhi is assasinated by a Hindu fanatic counter Ganhi's pacive tactics