India's Struggle for Independence

By andreavelazquez
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    India is the world's leading producer of cotton cloth

  • Sepoy Mutiny takes place

    This was against the British East Indies Company.
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    British Raj

    The British ruled the Indian subcontienent for almost a hundred years. Their unfair treatment towards the inhabitants of India led to many years of struggle.

  • Rabindranath Tagore is born

  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Is Born

  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah is born

  • Gandhi goes to England to become a lawyer

  • Gandhi goes to Africa

    He gets beaten by the driver of the train he was traveling on and forced to give his seat to a white man, This event makes him want to fight segregation and injustice.

  • Gandhi protests on the British's laws against Hindi

  • Gandhi returns to India after being in Africa for years

  • The British pass the Rowlatt Acts that violate a person's civil rights

  • Amritsar massacre by British troops on innocent civilians

  • Gandhi states him plans for swadeshi to boycott the British

  • Gandhi is elected as the president of the Indian National Congress

  • Indian Declaration of Independece, written by Gandhi

  • Gandhi begins Salt March to boycott the British by not paying the salt tax

  • The Salt March ends

  • Muslim League declares their desire for a separate Muslim country

  • British House of Commons approves the Indian Independence Act

  • India becomes independent

  • Gandhi is assassinated