2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 then
began calling him the
Mahatma, this means
great soul.
5. Salt March
This picture is Gandhi
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.
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6. 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.
7. 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.
9. Britain Grants Limited Self-
Rule
- Gandhi, and followers
gained greater political
power for India
- In 1935 British parliament
passed the government of
India Act.
10. 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.
11. 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.
