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Argued that Indians should have the same rights as Europeans so he wrote books and opened his own schools to carry on his beliefs.
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India helped Britain's economy by becoming a major source for cotton.
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The National Congress was created by English speaking Indians.
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During the 1900's tension was building up between Indians and the British because nationalism was rising in India.
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After fighting amongst the British side during World War I, the surviving Indians come home upset that the British had not given them the freedom they were promised. Soon after, the Rowlatt act was passed allowing the British to mistreat Indians
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During a peaceful gathering at Amritsar, British leader-Dyer ordered an attack on a crowed of unharmed men, women and children. About 400 people lost their lives that day.
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after the Amritsar massacre, Mohandas Gandhi started his first peaceful protest against the British. Indians under Gandhi's rule refused to wear clothes made from the British and started to thread their own cloth for clothing.
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Soon after the British monopoly on salt, Indians were starting to make their own. It seemed to have been a minor concern on the British part, yet soon after thousands of Indians were protesting against the monopoly.
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Britain gave India very limited self-rule but Gandhi was not satisfied as it was not the full independence he invisioned. So India's struggle didn't end.
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British Parliement gave Indians a degree of self rule.
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A meeting was called by the Muslim League demanding to seperate Muslim and Hindu countries
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India's first prime minister spoke on the eves of independence.
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Nehru passed away
