Grace's Indian Nationalism and Independence Timeline P.6

  • The sepoys rebelled

    The sepoys felt that they were being mistreated because they were indians.
  • The British government took direct control of India

    India lost their complete independence and they became a British colony.
  • The Indian National Congress was founded

  • Gandhi arrives to South Africa

    Gandhi was transfered to South Africa as a lawyer and he discovered the racism there against blacks and coloured when they threw him out of first class and the train.
  • The Muslim League was founded

  • Great March

    Consisting of 2,037 men, 127 women and 57 children from Charlestown; they marched halfway between Charlestown and Volksrust. The marchers broke through the Police cordon and crossed the border. Gandhi was arrested at the Palmford railway station but the marchers continued their journey.
  • Indian troops returned home from the war

  • Rowlatt Acts

    10,000 Hindus and Muslims protested against the new acts that allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial.
  • Amritsar Massacre

    British troops open fired at a crowd of unarmed Indian protesters, killing a large number.
  • The Congress Party endorsed civil disobedience

    Hindus and Muslims from India refused publicly to obey without violence. Thousands of Indians were arrested.
  • Gandhi begins 21 day fast

    Gandhi went on a twenty-one day fast to "purify" himself and " to recover the power to react on the people." The fast had a soothing effect, but only for a while.
  • Salt March

    Gandhi organized a demostration to defy the Salt Acts. In India they had to get permission to sell salt. They marched to the ocean to make their own salt illegally. Then they marched to the factories and they were beat.
  • Gandhi goes to England

    Represented the Indian National Congress at the Second Round Table Conference
  • The British Government passed the Government of India Acts

    They gained their independence, but not completely.
  • India gained their independence

    India became the world's largest democracy. They were finally able to self govern
  • Gandhi is murdered

    The Hindus hated the Muslims and they were tired of Gandhi allowing the Muslims to have their Pakistan, so on his way to Pakistan, Gandhi was murdered by Hindus.
  • Appartheid stops

    South Africa finally became a non racist country treating blacks and coloured (Indians) as equals.