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Jan 1, 1497
VASCO DE GAMA SAILS FOR INDIA
Vasco began exploring the African coast and was amazed by the good. He returned to Portugal and his voyage turned out to have given Portugal a direct sea route to India. -
DECLINE OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE
By the end of Aurangzeb's reign, he had drained the empire of its resources. Most of the citizens felt little or no loyalty to him, which led to the empire felling apart. -
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN BRITAIN
The Industrial Revolution greatly increased the output of machine-made goods. Before machines were made, people had to do these jobs by hand. -
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY
The BGIC began its work setting up trading posts at places such as Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. It stayed through helping India with becoming a supporting country. -
BRITISH OVERCOME FRENCH AND TAKE CONTROL OF INDIA
Robert Clive led EIC troops in a victory over Indian forces with the French at the Battle of Plassey. EIC was the leading power in India until 1858. -
BRITISH COLONIZED INDIA
The British took direct control of India as part of its empire, out of fear of more revolts. -
SEPOY REBELLION
The Sepoys thought that the cartridges for the new rifles were greased with beef and fat from cows. To Hindus, cows were sacred, and pigs were not eaten by Muslims. The result was a widespread rebellion. -
CREATION OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
The growth of nationalism in India led to the founding of the Indian National Congress. These groups at first were concentrated on specific concerns for Indians. At the end of the 1900's they were calling for self-government. -
CREATION OF THE MUSLIM LEAGUE
The Muslim League was an organizarion created to protect Muslim interests. The leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, insister that Muslims should reisgn from the Congress Party. The league stated that it would never accept Indian independence if they would be ruled by the Hindu-dominated Congress Party. -
ROWLATT ACTS
The laws allowed the government to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years. Denial of a trial by jury violated Western-educated Indian's individual rights. Hindus and Muslims protected the Rowlatt Acts in Amritsar. -
AMRITSAR MASSACRE
Ten thousand Hindus and Muslims went to m where at a huge festival, decided to fast and pray and listening to political speeches. The British were worried about Muslim and Hindu alliance. -
MOHANDA GANDHI'S LEADERSHIP OF THE INC
When the British failed to punish the officers responsible for the Amristar Massacre, Gandhi urged the INC to follow the policy of noncooperation with the British government. Gandhi launched his campaign of civil disobediencee to weaken the British government's authority and economic power over India. -
GANDHI'S TRAVELS STRESSING NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE
Civil disobedience was created, which is the deliberate and public refusal to obery an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence. Gandhi launched his campaign law and nonviolence to achieve independence, Protests that Indians held often led to riots. -
THE SALT MARCH
This march was created because Indians could only get salt from the government and a tax was added. It was planned at a site where the British government processed salt, and they did this intending to shut the saltworks down. Eventually 60,000 Indians and Gandhi were arrested. -
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT
From the results of all of Gandhi's actions, he gained greater political power from Indian people, The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act. It provided local self-government and limited democratic elections and not total independence. -
WWII-RIOTS BETWEEN HINDUS AND MUSLIMS
Muslims resisted the attempts to include Hindus in an Indian government dominated by Hindus. The riot between the two groups broke out in several Indian cities. Four days of clashes in Calcutta left more than 3,000 people dead and 5,000 injured. -
PARTITION
This was the term given to the division of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations. -
INDIAN/PAKISTAN INDEPENDENCE
The House of Commons passed an act that granted India and Pakistan independence in one month's time. In that short period, the whole civil service had to be divided. The most difficult was that millions of Indian citizens, whatever religion, had to decide where to go. -
GANDHI'S DEATH
A Hindu extremist who thought Gandhi was too protective of Muslims shot and killed Gandhi.
