A Flag, a Song and a Pinch of Salt
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1916 :
Home Rule Leagues of Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
1919 :
The Rowlatt Act allows the government to arrest and imprison people without showing the cause
1919 :
The massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh, Amritsar
1919 :
Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms. A few unimportant ministries are transferred to Indian ministers in the provinces. The real power remains with the governor.
1920 :
The Khilafat Movement. Protest by Muslims against the treatment of the Caliph of the Ottoman Empire of Turkey after the Allies defeat Turkey in the First World War
1921 :
Non-cooperation Movement. First mass campaign against British rule, led by the Indian National Congress
1922 :
In Chauri Chaura, a town near Gorakhpur in the United Provinces, policemen attack members of a passing nationalist demonstration picketing a liquor shop. The demonstrators chase the policemen, torch the police chowki, killing twenty-two policemen. Gandhi calls off the Non-cooperation Movement.
1928 :
Congress boycotts the Simon Commission.
1930 :
The Dandi March starts the Civil Disobedience movement.
1931 :
Gandhi–Irwin Pact
1931 :
Gandhi goes to London to attend the Round Table Conference.
1935 :
Government of India Act allows elections to be held for provincial governments. Separate electorates for Muslims; very few people get the right to vote
1937 : Elections to provincial legislatures. Congress sweeps the polls and forms governments in seven provinces.
1939 :
The Second World War
1939 :
Congress ministries resign after the viceroy includes India in the war. Jinnah declares ‘Day of Deliverance’.
1940 :
Muslim League adopts the ‘Pakistan Resolution’; demands a separate state for Muslims
1941 :
Individual satyagrahas by Congress leaders
1942 :
Quit India movement. All Congress leaders are arrested.
1942 :
Cripps Mission arrives. Offers Dominion Status that the Congress rejects, demanding independence
1944 :
Gandhi–Jinnah talks fail.
1946 :
Elections to the Constituent Assembly. Nehru forms government with the Muslim League.
1946 :
‘Direct Action Day’ declared by Muslim League. Communal riots start in Bengal and Bihar. Mahatma Gandhi goes to Noakhali and Calcutta to establish peace.
1947 :
Mountbatten concedes demand for Pakistan.
1947 :
Independence and Partition of India
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