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Into a middle class family in India.
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Goes to england to study law.
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Goes to Africa for 20 years fighiting laws that discriminated against indians in south Africa.
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Ghandi returned to India and joined their congress.
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General Reginald Dyer arrived with 50 soilders to clear the dield nu opening fire on unarmed people.
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Launched series of non violent actions against british rule; boycotts against british goods of textile and urged indians to wear cotton.
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Gandhi waded into the surf and picked up a lump of Sea Salt. Which ended up getting him put in jail.
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To mobilize mass support, he offered a daring challenge to Britain, to set out to end the British salt monopoly. Gandhi went on the march with 78 people and as he walked through the cities more and more people ended up joining him. By then end of the march thousands of people were with him
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When people tried to occupy a government saltworks, which ended up embarrassing the British government officials who took pride in their government.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted to create a different state so that all of the muslims could be seperated from the hindus.
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Britain made India postpone further action on independence and join the war without even asking them.
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Hindu-Muslim violence raged on in the Indian subcontinent.
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World War II was over and independence could no longer be delayed until a tragedy unfolded between the Hindu-Muslims.
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On 3 June 1947, Viscount Louis Mountbatten, the last British Governor-General of India, announced the partitioning of British India into India and Pakistan.
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Leader of the Muslim League, Muhammad Ali Jinnah insisted that Muslims got their own state, Pakistan. That resulted in riots between the Muslims and the Hindus.
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Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting. Hindu extremist Jawaharlal Nehru sot Gandhi.