Mahatma Gandhi-The Great Souled One
By: Grace Kimura
Background Information:
Karamchand Gandhi
Putlibai Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's Methods and Actions
Protests- The Salt March
Hunger Strikes- September 16, 1932
Non-Violence Non-Cooperation program
Timeline:
Indian Independence Begins- September 1920 to February 1922
Rowlatt Acts
Restrictions against Indian people
Police and army were ordered to search and seize Indian property to detain and arrest any Indians without any evidence against them, and to send Indians to WWI
Gandhi set up a program called the “non-violent non-cooperation” project
It included boycotts of councils, courts, and schools
- British realized that the “non cooperation” act would completely destroy their government, which was Gandhi's goal
Gandhi Begins 21 day Fast- September 1924
Gandhi decided to fast because...
He wanted to “purify” himself and to "recover the power to react on the people”
Cooperation between the Hindus and the Muslims was slowly decreasing
Gandhi attempted to fix it
Made up of 2 groups
The first group was led by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru who wanted their group to participate in the government
- The second group was led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who did not want their group to participate in the government
The United Kingdom Passes the Indian Independence Act- July 1947
The law was formed by the government
Passed by the British Parliament
Law was officially announced as the Independence and partition of India
Created by Clement Attlee (Prime minister)
He created it because Indian Political Parties agreed to transfer the British power of the government to the Indian government and the Partition of India
The Partition of India- August 15, 1947
The Partition was…
A separation of Hindu-dominate groups and a new created Muslim state of Pakistan
India was divided into 2 parts
Muslims(Pakistan) and Hindus(India)
There was violence and horrible riots
Led to population movements, half billion people dead, and millions to go homeless
- Downfall of the British Indian Empire
Gandhi is Assassinated- January 30, 1948
7 people involved in the assassination
Digambar Bagde
Shankar Kishtaiyya
Vishnu Karkare
Gopal Godse
Nathuram Godse
Narayan Apte
Madanlal Pahwa
Pahwa tried to bribe Choturam to let him go behind the podium to take pictures of Ghandi
Choturam became suspicious and asked Pahwa why
Pahwa left and Choturam assumed that he went back to the taxi
Pahwa really went to put a cotton ball with a bomb in it in the wall, behind the podium and light it
- The bomb went off, and killed Gandhi
Sources
- http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/mahatma-gandhi
- http://www.history.com/topics/salt-march
- http://www.takepart.com/article/2010/09/15/september-16-1932-gandhi-begins-hunger-strike
- http://www.mkgandhi.org/biography/nnviolnt.htm
- http://worldhistoryproject.org/1920/9/the-gandhi-era-of-the-indian-independence-movement-begins-with-the-non-cooperation-movement
- http://worldhistoryproject.org/1924/9/gandhi-begins-twenty-one-day-fast-in-an-attempt-to-reconcile-hindus-and-muslims
- http://worldhistoryproject.org/1947/6/15/united-kingdom-passes-the-indian-independence-act-1947
- http://worldhistoryproject.org/1947/8/15/the-partition-of-india
- http://worldhistoryproject.org/1948/1/30/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi-is-assassinated-by-nathuram-godse
- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gandhi-assassinated
- http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination