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The Sepoy Mutiny of India
Sepoys in the British East India Company's army rose up against British. The British were making hindus and muslims use pig and cow fat to grease their cartrages. The Hindus and Muslims were outraged. The rebellion spread to northern and central india. -
Government of India Act
New beggining of the constitution of India. Liquidation of the East India Company and the powers are transfered to the british Crown. -
Indian National congress
The Indian national Congress, also known as Congress Party, was a group formed to get rid of Great Britain. The Congress was created to form a platform for civic and political dialogue of educated Indians with the British Raj. -
Indian troops returned Home
They expected Britain to follow what they promised. Britain did not, and once again they were treated as second-class citizens. Radical Nationalists made acts of violence to show how much they hated british rule. -
Amristar Massacre
To protest of the Rowlatt Act, around 10,000 Hindus and Muslims went to Amristar. They went to a closed square in a park, to pray, and listen to political speeches. The British saw this as a threat majorly because of the alianze between the Hindus and Muslims. Even though the people did not know the british had forbidden public demonstrations, the Amristar commander still decided to send a troop over. Near 400 hindus died and 1,200 were wounded. -
Gandhi becomes the leader of the Independence movement
The massacre that had happened, made Mohandas K. Gandhi to become the leader of the indelendence movement. Gandhi’s strategy for battling injustice evolved from his deeply religious approach to political activity. He included a little of all religions in his teachings, and wanted to do protests peacefully in order to overthrow the british crown. -
Rowlatt Acts
Allowed leaders to jail protesters without trail for as long as two years. Their object was to replace the repressive provisions of the wartime Defence of India Act (1915) by a permanent law. This gave leaders a power to deal with revolutionary activities and protests. -
Civil disobediance
This was endorsed by the Indian National Congress. It was the deliberate public refusal to obay an unjust law. Gandhi launched this campaigne to weaken the British political and economical authority over India. -
The Salt March
Gandhi organized a demonstration to defy the Salt Acts. According to the British, Indians could only buy salt from the government. To show the British that they were not happy with the act, Gandhi and his followers walked 240 miles to the sea coast. There, they collected water and made their own salt in a sign of protest. Then they went to the site where salt was processed. The armed men in the site attacked the protestors, but the protestors did not give up peacefully. -
Government of India Act
With Gandhi's non-violence movements, the Hindus were able to get more power over India. In August of 1935, the British Parliament passed this act. It provided local-self government and limited democratic elections. The act was an important point in the move towards independence. It provided the basis for negotiations which resulted the British leaving India.
