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Vasco De Gama Found spices , rare silks , and precious gems so they decided to sail to India to trade over there.
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The British started setting up trade post in India. They over grew because India was collapsing.The british were so powerful they even had there own army.
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Aurangzeb has wasted the empires supplies in the war so becuase of lack of food a femine had started.The empire rose and fell but before Aunrangzeb died he handed the British the port of Bombay.
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Bombay was formally handed over to the British company and soon turned into a strong commercial military base comprising calvary , artillery , and infantry elements.
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Wealthy landowners began buying lands and made farming methods improve which got the agriculture revolution started.
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gossip spread among the sepoys that the catridges of their new newenfield rifle were greased with beef or pork fat. mislims don't eat pork so they got mad
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The British took command on India. India had come under the British crown during the reign of queen victoria.
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nationalism was growing so they created the indian national congress. They were one of the groups concentrated on concerns indians have.
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A organization founded to protect Muslim interest against the INC.
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A huge festival was taken place in an enclosed square to fast, pray , and listen to speeches. The British had public meetings so they send troops to fire on the crowd . That day many died and others were severely injured but none of them fought back. This sparked anger across India.
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These were laws that allowed the goverment to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years.
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Because of the Amritsar massacre Gandhi became the leader of the independence movement. Soon he persuaded the INC to endorse civil disobedience.
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Gandhi launched his campaign of law and nonviolence. Then the civil disobedience campaign to weaken the british governments authority over India.
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Gandhi organized a demostration to defy the hated salt acts. They didn't want to pay any salt tax so they went to the ocean and made there own. They then planned a peaceful march in front of salt companys. many were injured but they remained peaceful.
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The British parliament passed the India act which provided local self-government snd limited democratic. Elections but not total independence.
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4 days of riots in between muslims and hindus in Calcutta left more than 5,000 dead and 15,000 hurt.
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This granted India and Pakistan independence in one months time. This set off a lot of riots.
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They seperated pakistan into two states(west pakistan & east pakistan) this was made to seperate the muslim and indu nations.
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Gandhi was shot by a hindu because he thought Gandhi protected the Muslims too much.
