During Imperialism many countries were taking over others and gaining more colonies. Some were for natural resources to power factories during the industrial revolution or just to be more superior than others. One of the countries was India which was being taken over by England or the East India Trade Company. Mohandas Gandhi wanted to help win independence for India and that is what he dedicated his life to doing. The major struggle for independence lasted from 1916 to 1947. The East India Company had taken control of India during Imperialism and industrialism occurred. Britain made India grow cash crops such as tea, cotton, and indigo which meant they did not have enough food to eat. At the time, there were 2 types of Imperialism, …show more content…
indirect which meant the central authority had power over a country or area but local government is left with some authority, or direct which provides greater control because the central authority makes all the laws for another country or area. This is what Britain had over India. The East India Trade Company was originally set up to trade with India in the early 1700s but it became much more. By 1857 they owned much of India. There was much poverty in India during this time. There was also a strict caste system. One of the first revolts against Britain was the Sepoy Rebellion. The East India Company forced Indian troops to serve in all parts of the British Empire. Overseas travel was against their religion. Also the ne rifles were armed with cartridges of animal fat which was also against their religion. The Sepoys revolted and marched away and protest. After Britain took over India the economy became more modern. Britain sold cheaply made clothes in India and there was no more cottage industry. They stopped Indian farmers from being herders so they could grow cash crops. They cleared forest for crops which is deforestation. India was promised self-determination after WWI by Britain for fighting on the side of the Allies, but it was not honored. Nationalism increased after the Amritsar Massacre in 1919 where England open fired on 1,600 Indians who were peacefully protesting British policies. Indians were outraged. Hindus were the majority while Muslims were the minority. Gandhi was a Hindu. After many years of British rule over India Gandhi steps in to try and change that. Mohandas Gandhi was the leader of an Indian nationalist movement to try and get home rule and for Britain to leave.
He started in South Africa trying to help. Mr.Khan, a friend of Gandhi’s was a successful Muslim trader but the South Africans see him as simply an Indian. Hearing this surprised Gandhi because he is a well-educated lawyer and like the other Indian men he was speaking to, they are still considered inferior and not allowed to walk with whit e men in the street. Gandhi received his law degree in England yet the British discriminate against him in South Africa and he thought this treatment was unjust. Mr.Khan agreed to join him in protest against Indian discrimination and encourage people to burn their passes they have to carry. The British beat or arrested anyone who tried to join him in going against the government but he pass laws were eventually changed. After Africa he travels to India. His wife Ba usually does what he asks of her but when Gandhi tells her to clean the latrine she says no because that is a job for untouchables. At this time there was still a rigid caste system that Gandhi was trying to eliminate. He wanted equality for everyone. Ba agreed to follow him and stay by his side through his journey. His whole plan was to protest Britain through Ahimsa or nonviolence. His first major campaign was the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922. He used tactics such as boycotts, work strikes, and hunger strikes. He then led the Dandi Salt March to protest the …show more content…
British tax on salt in 1930. They marched 240 miles in 24 days to make salt without paying the tax. Millions began breaking the salt law because they joined him. He also had a strike on salt mines. After the British didn’t let the Indians back into the salt mines. During and after these events people began to rit and burn buildings. Gandhi fasted 2 different times to get them to stop because he had faith that they would not let him die and they did stop fighting. He also started the Homespun Movement and told Indians to make their own clothing rather than buy from the British. He also helped tenant farmers who were poor because of the British making them grow a crop they did not need. Gandhi was arrested many times for sedition by the British. Without Imperialism Gandhi would not have been famous. One of the most famous things about him was his “non violent resistance” and “civil disobedience”. In 1942, the widespread campaign for England to “quit India” began, eventually leading to independence in 1947. Many new things came as a result to Gandhi’s win for home rule.
India finally had independence from Britain. They had no more control over India or its people. It showed the world that colonization was evil and Britain had no more colonies after india. Pakistan was formed by Jinnah wanting freedom for the Muslims so they move to Pakistan. In the end Gandhi was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Vinayak Godse. One man from the United states, Martin Luther King Jr, was said to be heavily influenced by Gandhi. He followed his non violent way of protesting. They also both wanted equality and fir 2 kinds of people to get along. In 1947, the British partitioned India causing violence between India and pakistan. Some of the effects of home rule Gandhi received for India were good while others were
not. Gandhi is said to be one of the most influential people in history. He had a big role in the independence of India. Whether he created boycotts or strikes he was usually successful. He created a lot of nationalism along the way to independence. Gandhi was put in prison many times by the British but it only made his movement even more popular among Indians. He became a political and spiritual leader who is still celebrated worldwide.
“ First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” (Mahatma Gandhi). Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbandar. Throughout his life Gandhi helped those in need. He was taught that everyone and everything is holy. He married at the custom age of 19 and went to London to study law. The thing that helped Gandhi promote nonviolence is that he worked his entire life saying that violence didn’t change the way people acted. He lived his life saying that an eye for an eye only made the whole world blind. Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because he had something to prove and everyone else in the world agreed with him.
Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because he didn’t believe in segregation and didn’t follow the British’s rules for Indians. When coming back from prison in 1859, things changed in India. The people if India were forced to mimic the English on how they dressed, copy their manner and accept their standards of beauty. When hearing this, Gandhi didn’t accept it and started his movement. According to the background document,” he shed the cloths that made him look like a British lawyer and dressed in a poor man’s traditional loincloth.”(Background document) By do...
The mission of Gandhi’s life was to help the people of India free themselves from British rule. Many people have struggled for independence. They have fought bloody battles or used terrorism in an attempt to achieve their goals. Gandhi’s revolution was different. He succeeded as an independence leader with the use of nonviolent methods. The young Mohandas Gandhi did not seem as a boy that would become a great leader. He changed as he studied in Britain and practiced in South Africa. He fought for the rights of Indians in both South Africa and India. Gandhi believed that all people in the world are brothers and sisters. He didn’t hate the English. Actually, he saw a lot that was good about them. His nonviolent means of revolution was referred to as satyagraha, which is a combination of two Sanskrit words, satya, meaning truth and love, plus agraha, meaning firmness. Many people were influenced by satyagraha.
Imperialistic Europe differed strongly from that of the United States. Europeans focused on Social Darwinism; politicians felt that conquering underdeveloped territories was the best thing for the human race. The United States did not have as strong of views on imperialism that were expressed by Europeans. The United States imperialism differed from Europeans by the lack of pressure to join the movement from neighboring countries, sheer size, and the economic importance of conquering other territories.
Not only did the inequality and separation of the Indian society frustrate the citizens of India, but the imperialism Britain had upon them as well. In the early 20th century, Indian nationalists wanted to take a stand against the British rule and make India independent. The British created unfair laws that created a nationalist movement in India to regain their freedom. He believed that there should not be a Caste System because of one’s birth.
Mohandas Gandhi was a non-violent promoter for Indian independence.He was married young at 13,and went to London to go to law school.Gandhi got his degree there and was on his way to being a lawyer.He went to his first case,but couldn't even speak. Gandhi then got invited to South Africa from a businessman. Gandhi’s luck their was no good either.European racism came to him,after he got kicked off of a train,because he was “colored” and was holding a first class ticket.When Gandhi fought back because of it,was arrested and was sent to jail.After this, he became know as as a leader.Gandhi returned to India in 1896,and he was disgusted by it.British wanted them to wear their clothes,copy their manners,accept their standards of beauty,but Gandhi refused.Gandhi wanted people to live free of all class and wealth.Gandhi tried so hard and was more successful then any other man in India.They won independence in 1947. Gandhi’s non-violent movement worked because,Gandhi used clever planning, mass appeal, conviction, and compassion to win independence for India.
Imperialism in India British imperialism in India had many positive and negative effects on both the mother country, Britain and the colony, India. Many people would argue which effects were more prominent in these countries, and some would agree that they were equal. But in both cases, there were actually both. In India, the British colonization had more positive effects than negative. For instance, when the British colonized India they built 40,000 miles of railroad and 70,000 miles of paved roadway.
Under British rule in India, the British were harshly oppressive and only interested in exploiting products from India for their own use, causing many Indians to become extremely poor. They became so oppressed they were on the verge of violent civil disobedience, when Gandhi appeared to negotiate with the British threw non-violent tactics such as sit-ins and hunger strikes. The people were supportive on Gandhi and were set to become violent if anything happened to him. Things were resolved without violence.
There is no doubt that British imperialism had a large impact on India. India, having previously been an group of independent and semi-independent princedoms and territories, underwent great change under British administration. Originally intended to consolidate their hold on India by establishing a population that spoke the same language as their rulers, the British decision in the 1830s to educate Indians in a Western fashion, with English as the language of instruction, was the beginning of a chain of events, including a rise in Indian nationalism, that led to Indian resentment of British imperialism and ultimately to the loss of British control over India.
Gandhi is motivated by religious means; he believes that everyone is equal in God’s eyes. He gets involved in several movements for equality, and he stresses non-violence very strongly. The Indians are very mad because British rule continues to limit their rights. They are supposed to all get fingerprinted, and their marriage laws are invalid. Gandhi’s followers vow to fight their oppressors to the death, but he discourages them from violence.
India had strong pre-existing divides between the two major religions of the region: Hinduism and Islam. As a result, two separate nationalists movements seeking their own individual independence were being fought against the British in unison. The Muslim League, led by their President Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was aiming to create an Islamic nation state from the removal of Britain in the region (Britannica). The Indian National Congress had the goal of Hindu-Indian independence and was led by President Dadabhai Naoroji (Robinson). Both groups were fighting the British leadership, but for their own goals. When the British gave in to the pressure that the nationalists were putting on them and withdrew from India, the Partition of India created the two independent nations. While both sides were pleased that they finally had their own countries, there were still issues standing in the way. One of the most glaring was the mass immigration of people into their new countries. The Hindus that had been in the area that was now Pakistan had to migrate to India, and the Muslims that had been in India had to migrate to Pakistan. The sudden displacement of nearly 12 million people across newly founded religious lines was a catalyst for conflict. All across the region, multi-religious communities that had co-existed for nearly 1,000 years began to fight in a chaotic outbreak of territorial and religious violence. By the time the mass immigration had come to a close, one to two million people had been killed (Jamal). The violent results of the Partition are one of the the main reasons for the hostility and hatred that exists between India and Pakistan in the present day. It was the unorganized and careless way that the Partition was implemented by the British that allowed all of this to happen. Britain granted the two nations their independence and quickly exited.
Whilst the growth of Indian nationalism put considerable pressure on the Raj, historians offer many interpretations as to the fundamental cause of Independence. Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement and subsequent campaigns meant that nationalism began to appeal to the masses and helped establish a broad based movement for Independence. However, the British were always able to supress the nationalist movements, through reform or by using force, up to the Quit India movement of 1942. British involvement in the Great War and particularly the Second World War placed them in a weaker position economically, whilst the social and political expectations of the Indian people were changing, which strengthened nationalism and discontent.
Gandhi was pissed and so he withdrew from public life once again. Just them in 1935 the British gave the Indians a great amount of rights but they were not happy.
India has not been a free independent country for a long time. It had been under British rule from 1858-1947. India finally became independent on August 15, 1947 (Trueman). Many people credit India’s independence to Mahatma Gandhi because of the great role he played in helping India in its freedom struggle. Along with Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammed Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru assisted in making India an independent country. Gandhi’s main principle in India’s freedom struggle was based on non violence, which he called satyagraha, which means holding onto the truth, truth force, or soul force (Bondurant). Along with nonviolence Gandhi believe in passive resistance and swaraj or self rule. Gandhi thought that being violent would only get a bad response from the British, however passive resistance pushed the British to do something which would make them look bad To accomplish swaraj or self rule (Bondurant), Gandhi believed India needed 3 vital ingredients. The first thing India needed was to unify Indians with different religions, especially Hindus and Muslims. Second, India needed to remove its...
...tween the Hindus and Muslims, Jinnah felt that Muslims had no future in India (Overfield 216). With the end of British rule in 1947, not only did India gain its independence but also along with it was born an other country, Pakistan where Jinnah served as the first governor (Overfield 216). With the gain of India’s independence, Gandhi was shot the following year in 1948 by a Hindu zealot who resented his commitment to Hindu – Muslim harmony (Overfield 212).