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Partition of Bengal announced
Partition of BengalThe partition took place on 16 October 1905 and separated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas. -
Indians boycot indian goods
Ghandi decided to boycot brittish goods to improve and strengthen the economy of India -
anti british civil disobedience campaign
Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. -
The start of world war II
In the beggining of orld war II Britain brought india into the war -
Congress launches "Quit India" movement
This movement, launched by Mahatma Gandhi, was a movement that was set out to end the British rule. -
End of British rule
This was the end of the British rule and partition of sub-continent into mainly Hindu India and Muslim-majority state of Pakistan. -
Newly independent
Hundreds of thousands die in widespread communal bloodshed after partition. -
Death of Ghandi
As he was being helped across a garden he was weak and frail from fasting and was shot point blank by Nathuram Vinayak Godse