MODERN INDIA

HWH UNIT 13CHAPTER 19.1

BRITISH OCCUPATION, 1765-1947

Review British East India Company Sepy Rebellion The “Jewel in the Crown”

The Indian National Congress (Congress Party) Mostly Hindu Formed in 1885

The Muslim League Muhammad Ali Jinnah Formed in 1906

INDIA AFTER WORLD WAR ONE

No self determination after Versailles The Rowlatt Acts (1919)

Protesters could be jailed without trial The Amritsar Massacre (1919)

Emergence of Indian Nationalism India for Indians

Problem: India is very diverse

MOHANDAS K. GANDHI (1869-1948)

Educated as a lawyer in England

Fought for civil rights for Indians in South Africa Civil disobedience

and Non-Violence

GANDHI’S CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Boycotts The Spinning Wheel The Salt March

(1930)

Indian Flag, 1931

AFTER WWII

Britain can’t afford its colonies

Self Rule, 1947 Ethnic conflict Partition

Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1889-1964)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first leader of Pakistan (1874-1948)

Nearly 1 million die during partition

GANDHI ASSASSINATED, 1948

TENSION: INDIA AND PAKISTAN

Kashmir Wars, 1965, 1971,

1999 Nuclear Weapons 2008 Mumbai

attack

TENSION WITHIN PAKISTAN

East Pakistan becomes Bangladesh (1971)

Military coups and dictatorships

INDIA AFTER PARTITION

Non-Aligned during the cold war World’s largest democracy 90% are poor 200,000,000 lack clean drinking water Exploding economy Ethnic tensions

BJP

INDIA AFTER PARTITION

Indira Gandhi (prime minister 1966-1984) Sikh uprising in Punjab The Golden Temple Assassinated, 1984

INDIA AFTER PARTITION

Rajiv Gandhi (PM, 1984-1989) Son of Indira Gandhi Assassinated

Tamil terrorist from Sri Lanka