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Indian members of the East India Company militia revolt against new cartridges.
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The British government dissolves the East India Company after the rebellion
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A Congress established to put Indian concerns to the British government
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Queen Victoria is declared Empress of India
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Rowlatt Acts make the sale of anti-imperialist literature illegal and outlaws strikes, other oppressive measures are put into place.
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On April 13th 1919, peaceful demonstrators, including women and children, are killed and wounded by British soldiers.
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The Non-Cooperation Movement was pitched in under leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress from September 1920 to February 1922, marking a new awakening in the Indian Independence Movement. After a series of events including the Amritsar Massacre, Gandhi plans to withdraw the nation's co-operation from the British Government, thus launching the Non-Cooperation Movement and thereby marring the administrative set up of the country.
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Mahatma Gandhi led the Civil Disobedience Movement that was launched in the Congress Session of December 1929. The aim of this movement was a complete disobedience of the orders of the British Government.
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In August 1942, Gandhi started the 'Quit India Movement' and decided to launch a mass civil disobedience movement 'Do or Die' call to force the British to leave India.
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In his first speech as Prime Minister, Nehru said, Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance....