India:
Notes
Background:
-England colonizes India in 1763, USA was a British Empire then.
-1763 battle of the plains of Abraham in Canada- wolf- a leader died here
-1756 -Germany or persia went to war with France and England joins Persia- France had a strong hold in Canada
-France thought they could meet the english on the fields and later found out they were out numberers. Canada would be on big quebec.
-India was french procession- india becomes english after this battle
-In order for England to use india it needs a place to stop which is why they needed south Africa.
-WWI 1914
-India is required as a colony of Britain to send troops
-800,000 Indian soliders
-Lord Balfour decides that Indians needs independence 1917
-1918 Indians want change and independence- Britain comes up with the rowlatt act- suspends habeus corpus- can arrest anyone for anything.
-Amritsar- the india starts to peaceful protest and is a turning point.
-4 europeans end up killed- as result they kill people at a peaceful protest- 379 killed and 1000 injured
-Mahatma K. Ghandi:
-wealthy indian family
-went to english school and became a lawyer
-travels to south Africa- and defends Indians in south Africa
-leaves south Africa in 1915- in the belief that the indians in india were being mistreated
-returns to religious tension- Hindus (today 1 billion)- muslims (today 1.8 to 2 billion) and sikhs ( today 26 million)
-hindus and muslims- Ghandi is a hindu
-when he comes back the english pass the rowlatt act
-1919- gov of india act- one day
-for Ghandi this is not good enough
-he becomes the head of the INC- 1921
-pushes his politic agenda- civil disobedience
-400 000 000 indians and 200 000 british and he just says that they just don't do what they say- no violence.
-1930 salt act- can only buy salt from one british company
-all they do is not purchase salt from them- they then make salt themselves
-they march to the sea and make it themselves
-Ghandi is an egalitarian everyone should be free indians first religious second- room for everyone
-the hindus disagree with him the most
-hindus have more power- they don't want to give that up
-muslims- independence doesn't matter- they want their own state- lead by Jinnah
-1935- the act of india is signed- grants india independence with hindu control- controlled by Nehru
-1939- WWII- India gets brushed to the side kinda
-1947- India is officially free from the British- then included Bangladesh and Pakistan
1948- Jinnah- pakistan resolution- india separated on religious borders
-each group tries to leave and got to their areas and are killed in the process- 600,000
-Ghandi goes on a hunger strike- during it Ghandi himself is assassinated in 1948 by a hindu extremist
-India and Pakistan go to war in the kashimer
-1969 india goes to war with china
-1970 east Pakistan wins the election and theres a war
-India allows them to pass through cause their going to kill each other.
-1970 first and only women in power- Indira Ghandi comes to power- hard ass- casterates men
-1980- problems start to arise with the Sikh poplin in the punjab- they want their own independent state- Indira crushes them
-amritsar- orders soliders to attack and destroy religious artifacts and hundreds are killed
-oct 31. 1984, Indira's body guards kill her
-in the cold war india wanted to be neutral yet was the largest democracy
-England colonizes India in 1763, USA was a British Empire then.
-1763 battle of the plains of Abraham in Canada- wolf- a leader died here
-1756 -Germany or persia went to war with France and England joins Persia- France had a strong hold in Canada
-France thought they could meet the english on the fields and later found out they were out numberers. Canada would be on big quebec.
-India was french procession- india becomes english after this battle
-In order for England to use india it needs a place to stop which is why they needed south Africa.
-WWI 1914
-India is required as a colony of Britain to send troops
-800,000 Indian soliders
-Lord Balfour decides that Indians needs independence 1917
-1918 Indians want change and independence- Britain comes up with the rowlatt act- suspends habeus corpus- can arrest anyone for anything.
-Amritsar- the india starts to peaceful protest and is a turning point.
-4 europeans end up killed- as result they kill people at a peaceful protest- 379 killed and 1000 injured
-Mahatma K. Ghandi:
-wealthy indian family
-went to english school and became a lawyer
-travels to south Africa- and defends Indians in south Africa
-leaves south Africa in 1915- in the belief that the indians in india were being mistreated
-returns to religious tension- Hindus (today 1 billion)- muslims (today 1.8 to 2 billion) and sikhs ( today 26 million)
-hindus and muslims- Ghandi is a hindu
-when he comes back the english pass the rowlatt act
-1919- gov of india act- one day
-for Ghandi this is not good enough
-he becomes the head of the INC- 1921
-pushes his politic agenda- civil disobedience
-400 000 000 indians and 200 000 british and he just says that they just don't do what they say- no violence.
-1930 salt act- can only buy salt from one british company
-all they do is not purchase salt from them- they then make salt themselves
-they march to the sea and make it themselves
-Ghandi is an egalitarian everyone should be free indians first religious second- room for everyone
-the hindus disagree with him the most
-hindus have more power- they don't want to give that up
-muslims- independence doesn't matter- they want their own state- lead by Jinnah
-1935- the act of india is signed- grants india independence with hindu control- controlled by Nehru
-1939- WWII- India gets brushed to the side kinda
-1947- India is officially free from the British- then included Bangladesh and Pakistan
1948- Jinnah- pakistan resolution- india separated on religious borders
-each group tries to leave and got to their areas and are killed in the process- 600,000
-Ghandi goes on a hunger strike- during it Ghandi himself is assassinated in 1948 by a hindu extremist
-India and Pakistan go to war in the kashimer
-1969 india goes to war with china
-1970 east Pakistan wins the election and theres a war
-India allows them to pass through cause their going to kill each other.
-1970 first and only women in power- Indira Ghandi comes to power- hard ass- casterates men
-1980- problems start to arise with the Sikh poplin in the punjab- they want their own independent state- Indira crushes them
-amritsar- orders soliders to attack and destroy religious artifacts and hundreds are killed
-oct 31. 1984, Indira's body guards kill her
-in the cold war india wanted to be neutral yet was the largest democracy
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"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Mahatma Ghandi
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Were the Sikhs targeted because they were a minority or because they were a religious minority?
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If Indira Ghandi was more like Mahatma Ghandi would the Sikhs still have been targeted? Would India have been more violent in their quest for independence if it wasn't for Mahatma Ghandi? India and Pakistan are like small children, each only understands what they can not have but want, and refuse to look inward to which they already possess. |
Air India Flight 182 was a plane that was bombed at an altitude of 31,000 feet and 329 people were killed. The main suspects in the bombing were members of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa.
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