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Rebellion of Sepoys
Gossip spread among the sepoys (the Indian soldiers), that the cartridges of their new enfield rifles were greased with beef and pork fat. And later Sepoys rebelled -
India loses its sovereignty
The British government took direct command of India -
Indian National Congress was formed
The nationalist group, the Indian National Congress was founded -
Muslim League was formed
Muslim League was founded -
Return of the soldiers
Indian troops returned home from the war -
Gandhi led strike
Gandhi led stirke of mill workers at Ahmedabad and mill owner agreed to arbitration after his three days of fast (it was his first fast in India). -
The new law passed
The British passed the Rowlatt Acts. These laws allowed the government to jail protesters without trial for as long as 2 years -
Nation-wide hartal
A group that Gandhi organised to fight against Rowlatt Act -
Disobedience of unfair law
The congress party endorsed civil disobedience, the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achievee independece -
Elected as president
Gandhi elected as president of All-India Home Rule League -
Gandhi defy the hated Salt Acts
Gandhi organized a a demonstration to defy the hated Salt Acts -
Salt March
Gandhi went on the salt march to protest to the Britain's Salt Acts which prohibited Indians from selling or collecting salt. So Gandhi walked about 240 miles to reach coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea. In there, he made salt out of sea -
Declaration of Independence
Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India -
Gandhi fast
Gandhi fast in prison to protest the treatment of untouchables -
Passed Government of India Act
The British parliament passed the Government of India Act -
Gandhi fast
Gandhi fast while he is imprisoned to protest the British rule -
Gained independece
India was granted self rule from Britain -
Gandhi was killed
Gandhi assasinated
