Notes
-India becomes the prize possession of Britain, because of their resources such as Jewels
-India becomes a British colony in 1858
-In the First World War 800,000 Indians serve under the British
-In 1917 India becomes self governed
-In 1919 the Government of India Act is signed, which gave India freedom but never stated a specific time period
-In India there was always 2 votes, Hindu vote and the Muslim vote
-The Hindu population is significantly bigger
-Sikh population was too small to be considered for a vote
-1918 the Rowlatt act is passed, this is similar to the group areas act, it gave the government the power to jail anyone who protested or opposed the government
-After the Rowlatt act is passed there are riots
-The people riot and 4 white people are killed
-Amritsar was similar to Sharpsville, while people protested the British killed 379 people and injured 1200
-Mohandas K Ghandi (Mahatma Ghandi) comes from a relatively wealthy Indian family
-His family was able to send him to school to become a lawyer
-He goes to South Africa to defend the rights on Indians
-In 1915 her returns to India to help the situation
-He believes in peaceful protest
-In 1921 Ghandi starts the Indian National Congress
-He believes that British rule is the issue and wants India to become free of British rule
-He begins his campaign of civil disobedience
-The total population of India at the time was 400 million, the British population was about 200,000, and therefore Ghandi believed that if the Indians just did not listen to the British they would showcase their displeasure
-The Salt Act, meant that all Indians must buy British salt only, Ghandi’s response is a Salt March where he begins making his own salt (1930)
-This salt march became a symbol of civil disobedience
-Ghandi also believed in a egalitarian society where Muslims and Hindus could live together and unite with the common fact of being Indian, but this idea is rejected by the Hindus who refused to share power with Muslim minorities
-Muhammed Jinnah leads the Muslim people
-After WWII the British decide to grant India independence
-The Muslims (Jinnah) and the Hindus (Nehru) begin the fight for power
-India is partitioned in 1948 due to the Pakistan (land of pure) resolution
-Pakistan becomes a Muslim nation lead by Jinnah
-The partition is based on Muslim and Hindu areas
-Dividing a nation by religions creates a religious intolerance
-Rioting and racial protest is a result of people having to move to their religious country (Hindus moving from Pakistan)
-Over 600,000 people died due to the large migrations (Murders and crime)
-Ghost train murders
-Gandhi goes on his hunger strikes and uses other methods of non-violence to stop the violence
-A Hindu extremist murders Gandhi simply because Gandhi expresses his belief that Hindus and Muslim can coexist in India
-In the following years India industrializes
-In 1948 India and Pakistan went to war over the Kashmir (north west) region
-Pakistan proposes a plebiscite, but India rejects it
-In 1965 India and Pakistan have another war
-India remains neutral in the Cold War (even though they received $9 billion in aid from the USA between 1947-80)
-Pakistan erupts into civil war in 1970 due to an election
-Someone from East Pakistan is elected and the people of the west refuse to acknowledge the validity of this election
-East Pakistan then separates from Pakistan after the war and is called Bangladesh
-In 1980 India is lead by Indira Gandhi and she attempts to settle the religious tension and slow population growth, she introduces a forced castration for men
-Sikhs are from Northern India and they follow Gurus
-In 1980 the Sikhs push for Khalistan, which is a separate state for Sikhs
-The Sikhs become militant after their request for a state is denied
-Sikh homeland is in Amristsar (Golden Temple) and they used the golden temple to hide their weapons
-By 1984 Gandhi (Female prime minister) decides to attack the Sikhs who are hiding in the golden temple and hundreds of people die
-Days after the attack her Sikh bodyguards kill her
-India is the world’s largest democracy
-India and Pakistan still have tension to this day
Air India Attacks
-Air India flight-182: Montreal- New Delhi via London
-June 23 1985
-329 total deaths
-Everyone on board died
-Bomb exploded when they were just off the coast of Ireland
-Plane landed in the Atlantic
-Time bombs in checked bags
-India becomes the prize possession of Britain, because of their resources such as Jewels
-India becomes a British colony in 1858
-In the First World War 800,000 Indians serve under the British
-In 1917 India becomes self governed
-In 1919 the Government of India Act is signed, which gave India freedom but never stated a specific time period
-In India there was always 2 votes, Hindu vote and the Muslim vote
-The Hindu population is significantly bigger
-Sikh population was too small to be considered for a vote
-1918 the Rowlatt act is passed, this is similar to the group areas act, it gave the government the power to jail anyone who protested or opposed the government
-After the Rowlatt act is passed there are riots
-The people riot and 4 white people are killed
-Amritsar was similar to Sharpsville, while people protested the British killed 379 people and injured 1200
-Mohandas K Ghandi (Mahatma Ghandi) comes from a relatively wealthy Indian family
-His family was able to send him to school to become a lawyer
-He goes to South Africa to defend the rights on Indians
-In 1915 her returns to India to help the situation
-He believes in peaceful protest
-In 1921 Ghandi starts the Indian National Congress
-He believes that British rule is the issue and wants India to become free of British rule
-He begins his campaign of civil disobedience
-The total population of India at the time was 400 million, the British population was about 200,000, and therefore Ghandi believed that if the Indians just did not listen to the British they would showcase their displeasure
-The Salt Act, meant that all Indians must buy British salt only, Ghandi’s response is a Salt March where he begins making his own salt (1930)
-This salt march became a symbol of civil disobedience
-Ghandi also believed in a egalitarian society where Muslims and Hindus could live together and unite with the common fact of being Indian, but this idea is rejected by the Hindus who refused to share power with Muslim minorities
-Muhammed Jinnah leads the Muslim people
-After WWII the British decide to grant India independence
-The Muslims (Jinnah) and the Hindus (Nehru) begin the fight for power
-India is partitioned in 1948 due to the Pakistan (land of pure) resolution
-Pakistan becomes a Muslim nation lead by Jinnah
-The partition is based on Muslim and Hindu areas
-Dividing a nation by religions creates a religious intolerance
-Rioting and racial protest is a result of people having to move to their religious country (Hindus moving from Pakistan)
-Over 600,000 people died due to the large migrations (Murders and crime)
-Ghost train murders
-Gandhi goes on his hunger strikes and uses other methods of non-violence to stop the violence
-A Hindu extremist murders Gandhi simply because Gandhi expresses his belief that Hindus and Muslim can coexist in India
-In the following years India industrializes
-In 1948 India and Pakistan went to war over the Kashmir (north west) region
-Pakistan proposes a plebiscite, but India rejects it
-In 1965 India and Pakistan have another war
-India remains neutral in the Cold War (even though they received $9 billion in aid from the USA between 1947-80)
-Pakistan erupts into civil war in 1970 due to an election
-Someone from East Pakistan is elected and the people of the west refuse to acknowledge the validity of this election
-East Pakistan then separates from Pakistan after the war and is called Bangladesh
-In 1980 India is lead by Indira Gandhi and she attempts to settle the religious tension and slow population growth, she introduces a forced castration for men
-Sikhs are from Northern India and they follow Gurus
-In 1980 the Sikhs push for Khalistan, which is a separate state for Sikhs
-The Sikhs become militant after their request for a state is denied
-Sikh homeland is in Amristsar (Golden Temple) and they used the golden temple to hide their weapons
-By 1984 Gandhi (Female prime minister) decides to attack the Sikhs who are hiding in the golden temple and hundreds of people die
-Days after the attack her Sikh bodyguards kill her
-India is the world’s largest democracy
-India and Pakistan still have tension to this day
Air India Attacks
-Air India flight-182: Montreal- New Delhi via London
-June 23 1985
-329 total deaths
-Everyone on board died
-Bomb exploded when they were just off the coast of Ireland
-Plane landed in the Atlantic
-Time bombs in checked bags
Subjunctive Question
If the international community had largely intervened in the Pakistan-India conflicts could it have been resolved?
3..2..1...
Unjust, oppression, peace
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Would India be peaceful and economically stable today if the British had not colonized it?
If the international community had largely intervened in the Pakistan-India conflicts could it have been resolved?
3..2..1...
Unjust, oppression, peace
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Would India be peaceful and economically stable today if the British had not colonized it?