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They marched to Delhi, where they were joined by Indian soldiers stationed there. They captured the city of Delhi. From Delhi, the rebellion spread to northern and central India.
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They also promised that the Indian states that were still free would remain independent. Unofficially, however, Britain won greater and greater control of those states.
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By the early 1900s, however, they were calling for self-government.
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They expected Britain to fulfill its promise. Instead, they were once again treated as second-class citizens.
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They protested and 10,000 Hindus and Muslims came together to Amritsar a major city.
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To protest the Rowlatt Acts, around 10,000 Hindus and Muslims flocked to Amritsar. Most people at the gathering were unaware that the British government had banned public meetings. However, the British commander at Amritsar believed they were openly defying the ban. He ordered his troops to fire on the crowd without warning.
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British arrested many Indians who participated in strikes and demonstrations.
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He was arrested and accused of sedition.
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Gandhi organized a demonstration to defy the hated Salt Acts. According to these British laws, Indians could buy salt from no other source but the government. They also had to pay sales tax on salt. To show their opposition, Gandhi and his followers walked about 240 miles to the seacoast. There they began to make their own salt by collecting seawater and letting it evaporate.
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non-cooperation movements break out across India.
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Untouchables are the lowert class of indians.
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It provided local self-government and limited democratic elections, but not total independence.
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As people scrambled to relocate, violence among the different religious groups erupted. Muslims killed Sikhs who were moving into India. Hindus and Sikhs killed Muslims who were headed into
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In that short period, more than 500 independent native princes had to decide which nation they would join. The administration of the courts, the military, the railways, and the police—the whole of the civil service—had to be divided down to the last paper clip. Most difficult of all, millions of Indian citizens—Hindus, Muslims, and yet another significant religious group, the Sikhs—had to decide where to go.
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Gandhi personally went to the Indian capital of Delhi to plead for fair treatment of Muslim refugees. While there, he himself became a victim of the nation’s violence.
