Nationalism in India

BY:
Courtney
Gallagher &
Chantal Brown
 INTRODUCTION
 The British empire which
controlled India began to
weaken. This brought
nationalist activity in India,
Turkey, and in some southwest
Asian countries. Indians who
attended British schools learned
European views of nationalism
and democracy. They applied
these ideas to their countries.
 Indian Nationalism
grows
 World War One Increases.
– Rowlatt Acts: allowed government
to jail protestors with out trial
for as long as two years.
 Amristar Massacre
– Killing by British troops of
nearly 400 Indians gathered at
Amristar to protest the Rowlatt
Acts. 1,200 were wounded.
 Gandhi
This is Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Gandhi had a strategy which
was a deeply religious
approach to political
activity. His teachings had
ideas from all of the major
world religions. Gandhi
attracted many followers. They
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 Salt March
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leading the Salt March.
It was in 1930 to go
against the Salt Acts.
Because of these laws,
Indians could buy salt
from no other source,
but the government and
had to pay sale tax on
salt. To show this they
walked about 240 miles
to the seacoast. There
they made their own
salt by collecting sea
water and letting it
evaporate.
 Gandhi’s Tactics of
Nonviolence
•Mohandas K. Gandhi
– the leader of the independence movement.He
had a religious approach to political activity,
and took ideas from Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism,
Islam, and Christianity.
•Civil Disobedience
– a deliberate and public refusal to obey a law
to considered unjust
• Boycotts
– he called on Indians to refuse to buy British
goods, attend government schools, pay British
taxes, or vote in elections.
– He told Indians to do things for themselves.
 Continuation of
Gandhi’s Nonviolence.
• Strikes and Demonstrations.
– British had trouble keeping trains running, factories
operating and over crowded jails from bursting.
– Protests also led to riots.
• The salt march.
– salt march - a peaceful protest against the salt acts in
1930 in India which Gandhi led his followers on a 240 mile
walk to the sea, where they made their own salt, from
evaporating sea water.
- Planned a march to a site where the British
government processes salt.
- More demonstrations against the salt tax and it took
place throughout India, eventually about 60,000 people
were arrested, including Gandhi.
This political
cartoon shows
Gandhi putting all
of his focus on
India while
creating chaos in
India.
Britain Grants Limited
Self-Rule
- Gandhi, and
followers gained greater
political power for
India
- In 1935 British
parliament passed the
government of India Act.
 India Finally Gained
Independence.
They got independence on August
15, 1947. India became the world
largest democracy. Jawaharlal
Nehru was Indians first prime
minister. Nehru was India's
leader for the first 17 years of
independence. He was one of
Gandhi’s most committed
followers.
 CONCLUSION
 In conclusion nationalism in
India brought many prosperous
things to the people. They grow
to out power the British with
the new ideas and creations
brought about by Gandhi. Without
these new enlightenment ideas
India would not have their self-
rule.