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Beginning of the Indian rebellion against the British government, soldiers rebelled and captured the city of Delhi. After that, the rebellion began to spread to the northern and central parts of India.
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The year of 1858 is memorable for one of India’s most significant battles for their gain of independence. They fought in Gwalior on June 17th and Rani Lakshmibai, the queen of north-central India was killed.
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Grow in nationalism led to founding of two nationalist groups in the Indian national congress. Last significant battle for India’s independence. It was 1885 - “Rise of nationalism,” 72 Indian lawyers gathered together in Bombay to form a Congress Party, it was created because of the struggle to fight the British rule.
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Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising on a lawsuit.
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South Africa, Gandhi is in the train and they do not believe that he is an attorney because he was colored, the train kicked him out because of that, (being in first class) he was really well educated.
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In South Africa Gandhi is in the train and they do not believe that he is an attorney because he was colored, the train kicked him out because of that, (being in first class) he was really well educated.
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Outbreak of Boer War (1899-1901) in South Africa. Gandhi organizes an ambulance corps for the British.
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Gandhi returns to India to attend the Indian National Congress. G.K. Gokhale introduces him to nationalist leaders.
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The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members; Gandhi and others refuse to register. Their resistance efforts mark the first use of nonviolent non-cooperation by the Indian minority in South Africa, soon calledsatyagraha, or "soul-force."
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Grow in nationalism led to founding of two nationalist groups the muslims league.
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Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison.
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People welcome Gandhi as a hero when he landed on January 9, 1915, at the Apollo Bunder in Bombay.
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Indian troops returned home from war. They expected british to treat them good, but once again they were treated as a second class. Nationalism in India intensified.
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British passed the Rowlatt Acts. There were laws that allowed the government to jail protesters without a trail for as long as two years. Government of India Act was introduced.
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The congress party declared the civil disobedience, the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law and nonviolence, that means being able to achieve independence. Through out this year British arrested many Indians who had been part of strikes and demonstrations. (Jawaharial Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammed Jinnah rose to be known and very influential in this year)
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Gandhi organized a demonstration to defy the hated salt acts. According to the British laws, Indians could not buy salt from no to other place than the government.
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British parliament passed the government of India Act. It provided local self government and limited democratic elections, but not total independence.
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India gets partitioned (separated) from British India, India and Pakistan, India became an independent nation.
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Gandhi was murdered, a lot of people were gathered together when he got killed, and governor of India was replaced.
