- By the first world war Indians were loyal to the Brits.
- 1917à India can be self-governed
- 1918à it gave unrest
- Rowlett act
- 4 Brits were killed
- The response to the murder of British soldiers was the Amritsar Massacre
- 379 dead
- 1200 wounded
- Rise of Mohandas Ghandi
- Lawyer
- Well practiced in human rights
- He worked in South Africa
- He found the profound inequality
- 1921
- Ghandi was the head of the INC
- Civil disobedience
- Salt March
- Hindus and Muslims could work together
- Ghandi was the head of the INC
- 1947 à India Independence
- Leaders: (don’t get along)
- Ghandi
- Nehru à Hindu
- Sinnah à Muslim
- Leaders: (don’t get along)
Region of the Kashmir- north west India
- UN stepped in from India and Pakistan fighting
- UN suggested a referendum: India rejected because it would not get enough support
- Largest democracy in the world
Ghandi- deeply upset about partition, fighting between Hindus and Muslims
- Goes on a hunger strike, becomes a symbol of peace and hope
- Assassinated by a Hindu extremist
- Indira Ghandi, comes to power
- Has to deal with the untouchables (Cast system: privilege vs untouchable) you are a street beggar (cannot jump the cast system)
- Began a program to reduce the population of the untouchables, (forced castration)
- Sikh population (religious issues) marginalized by society.
- Sikhs began to establish a state called Khalistan: Sikh homeland
- Began to meet in the golden temple
- Massive assault on the temple
- Her Sikh body guards turned and assassinated her
- Plane from Canada to Britain, air India was blown up, carried out by Sikh terrorists as justice for India
- East and west Pakistan split due to election, division of the country, east Pakistan changed their name to Bangladesh