Toward Self-Rule in India
(1914-47)
I. Promises & Repression
A. Indians served during WWI
B. Government of India Act (1919) --> dyarchy
1. Indians -- agriculture, health, education
2. British -- taxes, police, courts
C. Rowlatt Acts (1919)
D. Amritsar Massacre (1919)
II. Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
A. studied law in Britain
B. South Africa (1893-1914)
1. experienced racial injustice
2. Indian clients = former indentured laborers
3. satyagraha = truth force
C. returns to India in 1915
1. Mahatma = Great Soul
2. leads Indian National Congress (1920s)
a) cultivated alliances with leaders
b) identified with the multitudes
D. three massive campaigns
1. non-cooperation (1920-22)
2. salt march (1930-32)
3. Quit India (1942)
E. domestic programs
1. abolition of untouchability
2. cultural policies
3. prohibition
4. appropriate technology
5. Hindu-Muslim unity
III. Independence (1947)
A. realpolitik
B. partition
1. India (Hindu)
2. Pakistan (Muslim)
C. mass migration (12 million)
D. Kashmir & Bangladesh
Think/Write
What do you think of Gandhis non-violent methods? Wherein is courage required
-- in blowing others to pieces from behind a cannon, or with a smiling face to approach
a cannon and be blown to pieces?