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Indian Soldiers had to bite off the ends of cartridges that were greased with beef and pork fat. Many soldiers were outraged by this because both of their religions did not coincide with what they were doing. They marched on and captured the city of Delhi. The rebelion spread to northern and central India.
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After the rebellion, the government took direct command of India.
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The growth of nationalism led to the founding of nationalist groups.
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Gandhi accepts to spend a year in South Africa advising a lawsuit.
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Another nationalist group resulted from the growth of nationalism.
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The British government had promised that if the indians enlisted in the British Army, the govt. in return they promised a reform that would lead to self-government. When the soldiers came back from the war, the British kept treating them as second-class citizens.
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Nationalists fought against the Britishin for their disloyalty by protesting and violence. In 1919 the British passed laws in which the government could jail protestors without trial for as long as two years. These laws were called the Rowlatt Acts.
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As a form of protest, the nationalists held a hartal, in which the peope peacfully fast and prey, drastictly affecting the British.
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British troops led by General Dyer, shot a crowd of Indian protesters.
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The Congress Party supports civil disobedience, a public refusal in which one is against an unjust law, to achieve independence via nonviolence.
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Gandhi was arrested for being a trouble maker and provoking situations that the British are trying to prevent.
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Despite his long abcence in politcs, he becomes President of the Indian National Congress.
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Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India.
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Gandhi opposed to the Btitish law in which Indians could only buy salt from the government. He and his followers walked 240 miles to the coast to make their own salt.
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The British Parliment passed the Government of India Act, which provided limited democracy, and local-self-government, but for total independence. Tensions grew between Muslims and Hindus. Muslims feared that the Hindus would rule India if it ever gets total independence.
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The British House of Commons passed an act that granted self rule from Britian with a partitioned region India and Pakistan.
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Gandhi is assasinated by hindu nationalist, Nathuram Godse. His last words were, "Hē Ram", which can be translated into "Oh God".
