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Gossip spread among the sepoys, that the Indian soldiers cartridges of their new Enfield rifles were greased with beef and pork fat. To use the cartridges, soldiers had to bite off the end. Both hindus who consider cows sacred and muslim who don't eat pork
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The sepoys rebelled, they captured the city of delhi where there was indian soldiers. The rebellion spread to northern and central indian.
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As the result of mutiny in 1858, the british took command of india.
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Indian National Congress, founded by a collection of educated elites hoping to build bridges and was the most influential organization in the transition to sovereignty.
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Gandhi passes the bar exam in England, in order for him to practice law.
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·Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising on a lawsuit.
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People started to leave the church because Gandhi saw them as selfish rich people so their thoughts didn’t agree.
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The Muslim league 1906 the nationalist groups were now were calling for self government.
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Gandhi went back to India, many supporters that he had were there to greet him as he got to India
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They cannot fight as a nation because some people do not know and there are 7,000 different groups and they are all in different classes. He doesnt want to see rich indians taking over.
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The indians came back from WW1 and had expected Britains to fulfill their promise. They did not fulfill it they were still treated as second class, so the radicals nationalists started doing act of hatred to show how much they detested the british.
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British passed the Rowlatt acts this meant that they could send to jail protesters without trial for at least two years. In the spring 10,000 hindus and muslims went to Amritsar and prayed and listened to political speeches, the demonstration viewed it as a nationalist outburst and called the british. Amritsar Massacre, they killed about 400 and wounded 1200 because of the British commander in Amritsar.
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The congress party supported the public refusal to obey an unjust law and nonviolence to achieve independence. Then gandhi started the civil disobedience campaign to weaken the british government authority.
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The congress party supported the public refusal to obey an unjust law and nonviolence to achieve independence. Then gandhi started the civil disobedience campaign to weaken the british government authority.
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Gandhi organized a demonstration to defy the hatred of the salt act. The salt act were made by britain and it was that the indians could only buy salt from the government and had to pay sales tax for the salt. Gandhi and his people walked 240 to the seacoast to start making their own salt from the sea water.
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A bill with recommendations was drawn up and passed as the Government of India.
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India declared war on Germany, on September 3.
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The Partition of India between the British and Indian Empire that led to the creation and the union of india.
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Gandhi was murdered by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
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India became a republic.
