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Gandhi organizes his first protest against anti-Indian
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When the Transvaal government announces that all Indians must register and produce identification on demand or risk deportation, Gandhi asks Indians to peacefully resist. The Indians agree, setting off seven years of protest and struggle between the Indians and government.
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Rabindranath Tagore, and Indian poet and Nobel Laureate, refers to Gandhi for the first time as Mahatma. The title means "Great Soul" and is given by Hindus to only the holiest men. Gandhi is not fond of it because he believes all souls are equal.
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Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests.
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In 1916, Gandhi returned to India.
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Ghandi started developing his Non-violent Civic Disobedience.
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Ghandi was officially leading the Indian National Congress in 1921.
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Ghandi publishes the declaration of independence of India in 1930.
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British government yields to protests, releases all prisoners, invites a Congress representative to Britain for a Round Table Conference (the Congress asks Gandhi to be this representative).
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Gandhi leads a march to the sea to recieve salt.
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Gandhi is breaking the salt law, so he is arrested for getting salt from the sea.
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He launches the All Indian Village Industries Association
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Ghandi's first sttempt of assasination came upon him on June 25, 1934. There are 6 attempts that are known to have happened.
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Gandhi starves himself in prison to protest the the treatment of untouchables.
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Sir Stafford Cripps arrives in India, presenting to the Indian National Congress a proposal for Dominion status (autonomy within the British Commonwealth) after the War.
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he Indian National Congress rejects the Cripps proposal, and declares it will grant its support for the British war effort only in return for independence.
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Ghandi was arrested for the first time by the british because of his beliefs that indians shouldn't have to fight for independence.
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Gandhi's wife passes 3 months before they were released from prison. She died in the prison they were locked up in.
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Gandhi was approached by Godse and was thrown off of a train and that is when he decided he was done with all of it.
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Gandhi visits Muhammed Ali Jinnah in Bombay, but is unable to work out an agreement that will keep India whole.
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British Cabinet Mission publishes proposal for an Indian state, without partition; Jinnah and the Muslim League reject the proposal.
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Lord Mountbatten arrives in India and takes out the agreement for independence and partition.
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India celebrated it's independence day August 15, 1947. They are finally free from the British.
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Indian independence becomes offifial, so does the partition of two countries, India and pakistan.
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14 years after the first assasination attempt, Ghandi was eliminated
January 30, 1948.
