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Name _________________________ Date __________ Per ____________ Indian Independence

Reading: Choices Curriculum, Brown University, Indian Independence p. 11-20

Task: (1) Read the section assigned to your group and answer the guiding questions

(2) Decide how you will present to the class (Who will type? Who will take each question?)

1857 Sepoy Mutiny- starts the demand for independence

1885 Indian National Congressfounded: A political organization designed to unite all Indians and gain great self-

representation.

1909 India Councils Act: (p.11)

What did it do?

How was it still not true representation?

Why were Muslims still concerned?

1919 Government of India Act: (p.12)

Why was it created?

What did it to?

How was it still limited?

1920-22. Gandhi and the Indian National Congress (p.13-15)

How did the Gandhi use the policy of noncooperation to pressure the British? (p.13)

What is did boycotting British products work so effectively? (Inference)

What was the Salt March and why did it work so effectively? (p.14)

1922- Muslim League (p.15,17)

Why did people believe the Muslim League would offer better protection than the Indian National Congress? (p.15)

Why did Muslims in the United Provinces feel betrayed? (p.17)



(1939-1945) WWII (p.20-21)

Why were the British more willing to let India have its independence after WWII ?

What did the British fear if they did not leave India?

How would it be beneficial for the British in their efforts in the Cold War to leave India willingly?

How does Indias independence movement influence decolonization in other countries? (p.21)

1945 New Constitution(p.12)

What requirements did the British place on the new Indian Constitution?

What does India have to agree to before England will allow them to write a new constitution?

1947 Partition (lecture)Map Questions:

(1) What new countries were formed from India at independence?

(2) What states were not included in the partition plan?

(3) What seems to be happening between the different countries?

What was Partition?

What problems did partition create?



Discussion questions about big, controversial ideas presented from our readings.

(1) One of the big problems of democracy is that the will of the majority can overrun a minority.

For instance, some people in America see it as unfair that the heterosexual majority in places

like Texas have made a law prevented homosexual marriage. They see this as an example of

a majority taking advantage of their privileged status to pass unfair laws that strip a minority of what should be a right. In India, this majority versus minority is clearly a major concern.

Muslims are concerned that the majority will always elect Hindu officials who will ignore the

needs of the Muslim community. Worse, some Muslims fear that that the majority Hindu will

pass laws to discriminate against them as payback for centuries of Mughal misrule.

What was the Indian solution to this problem?

Do you agree with it? Explain.

Would the American democracy be enhanced by this sort of system? Think big ± maybe we should

reserve seats based on religion, but should we reserve seats based on something else?

(2) What problems face India today? (Feel free to do research or ask someone familiar with these

issues).

Which problems are the most pressing and the most serious?

Are they likely to improve or worsen over time?

What steps may be necessary to solve these problems?



(3) Did the nonviolence move up speed up the process of independence or slow it down? Explain.

(4) What was the most significant reason India was able to achieve independence? Explain.

-Internal economic pressure made it impossible to make a profit (boycotts, tax evasion, strikes)

-International pressure from other countries

(5) Reflect on the question of partition. Would British India have been better off receivingindependence without partition and, therefore, without creating Pakistan?

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