By: Tabitha Rosario

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Nationalism In India

• By Tabitha Rosario
• And
• Linda Scavella

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How does Nationalism Grow in India?

• In the end of WWI the Ottoman Empire broke up.
  British who controlled India started showing
  signs of falling apart. Nationalist activity then
  stirred up due to the weakening of these empires.
  Nationalism had been growing since the mid-1800s
  , the upper class who attended British schools
  learned European views of Nationalism , so they
  then began to apply these political ideas to
  their own country.

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How did Nationalism Increase WW1 Activity?

• Indians enrolled in the British Army. In return
  Britain would reform the government that would
  eventually lead to self-government.
• 1918 - Indian troops came home to learn Britain
  didnt fulfill its promise. They were still
  treated as second-class citizens. Out of hatred
  radical nationalist carried out acts of violence.
• 1919 - British passed the Rowlett Act, which
  allowed the British government in India to jail
  anti-British protesters without trial for as long
  as two years.

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What is the Amistar Massare?

• While protesting the Rowlett Acts, about 10,000
  Hindus and Muslims gathered together and went
  down to Amritsar (City in Punjab) , of 1919 in
  Spring.
• About 400 Indians died and about 1,200 were
  wounded.
• This massacre sparked an explosion of anger
  across India. They wanted independence from
  Britain

THIS POLITICAL CARTOON SHOW THE AMISTAR
MASSACRE IN INDIA.
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Who was Mohandas K. Gandhi?

• Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869 in
  Porbandar, India.
• On January 20th,1948, Gandhi died due to the
  fact that, he was trying to start peace in Delhi,
  were he association by two proactive Muslims, who
  thought he was Hindu.

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What did Gandhi do as the, Great Soul?

• Gandhi emerged as the leader of the independence
  movement.
• He then blended ideas from all the major
  religions
• Christianity Judaism Buddhism and Islam.
• Then Gandhi did injustice evolved from his
  deeply religious approach to political activity.
• Gandhi also ordered for India to follow a
  policy of non-cooperation India National
  Congress(INC) with the British Government because
  of the non-cooperation they had. But then the
  British failed to punish the Officers responsible
  for the Amritsar Massacre.

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What did Gandhi Boycott?

• Gandhi wanted Indians to refuse to buy British
  goods, attend Government School, pay British
  taxes, and vote in their elections.
• Gandhi boycotted British clothing in which was
  an source of wealth for the British.
• Gandhi then started to make his own clothing.
• The Result of the Boycott, was the sales of the
  Britain clothing in India dropped Increasable.

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Gandhi Strikes and Demonstrations.

• Gandhi weapons of civil disobedience took the
  economic toll on the Britain.
• The British struggled running factories,
  trains, operating and overcrowded jails from
  bursting.
• Gandhi pleaded for nonviolence protest, but the
  protest often led to many riots.

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What was the Salt March?

• The salt march was when India began to make
  their own salt by collecting sea water and
  letting it evaporate it was ten and peaceful
  protest.

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Who was Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

• Jinnah was born on December 25,1876.
• He then died on September 11th,1948.
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the leader of the Muslim
  League in 1940.
• He was also once a member of the Congress Party.
• This league that Jinnah ran only spoke for the
  Muslims.
• The Muslims League would never ever accept
  Indias Independence.

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What did Jinnah say about Great Britain?

• Jinnah said that
• The Only thing the Muslim has in common with
  Hindu is his Slavery to the British.
• This saying means that, the only thing the
  Muslims had in common with Hindu is slavery
  because of the British.

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What was the Muslim League?

• The Muslim League was an organization founded in
  1906 in India and Pakistan to protect the Muslim
  Interest.
• This League was founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
• The league was concerned that mainly the Hindu
  Congress Party would look out primarily for
  themselves interest and not for the other
  interest.

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What was the Partition in India

• When the British Government changed over from
  the Consecutive Party Winston Churchill to the
  Labour Party Clement Altee.
• The British then transferred their power they
  were fighting over who should receive the power.
• Then riots broke out Calcutta, East of Bengal,
  Bihar, due to the Muslims and Hindus.
• Because of these riots, about 5,000 people were
  dead, and more than 15,000 hurt in August of
  1946, 4 days after the riot broke out.
• Gandhi then tired to reduce the violence between
  the Muslims and Hindus.

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What is an Partition?

• The partition was the break up of India, into 2
  nations-mostly Hindus Indians and Muslim
  Pakistan.
• Then on July 16th,1977, the British House of
  Commons passed an act to grant the 2 nations of
  independence in 1 month.
• In the summer of 1947, about 10million people
  moved to Indias Subcontinent.
• Then the Muslims killed the Sikhs who were
  moving into India then the Hindus killed the
  Sikhs were headed to Pakistan.

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Conclusion

• In conclusion, you can see that because of
  Mondnahas K. Gandhi, he helped India in many
  ways. Because of his peaceful ways, he is known
  as the, Great Soul, in India. India honors and
  respects him and his ways so much that, his own
  birthday is an national holiday in India. Gandhi
  is a great hero, to many of us, even to present
  day.

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Political Cartoons of Nationalism in India.

• THIS POLITICAL CARTOON SHOWS THAT GANDHI DOESNT
  WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH EVIL AT ALL ALL HE
  WANTED WAS PEACE.

THIS POLITICAL CARTOON SHOWS GANDHI SAYING NO TO
THESE WORDS.