Mahatma Gandhi. English Rule over India First we need to talk about England !

Mahatma Gandhi

English Rule over India

First we need to talk about England!


In the year 1600 British Queen Elizabeth created the East India Company of England

to travel to the Eastern part of the world and conduct trade with those countries.



1.The East India Company arrived in India in 1608

2. East India Trading company was in charge of trade with China, India and

South East Asia.


3. The East India Company arrived in India in 1608.

4. East India Company was able to quickly establish trading posts and factories in some of the major

cities of India.


5. The British had firmly established

themselves on Indian soil, and had started ruling the

people immediately.


6. Indians started rebelling towards the English, and in 1857, the First mutiny was launched

7. Mutiny - Rebellion against authority (people in charge)


Great Indian leaders rebelled until the English could take it no longer and agreed to 'Quit

India'.

This happened in the year 1947, when India declared herself an independent country.


8. British ruled over India for 339 years.

9. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the Great Indian Leaders who helped kick the

British out of India…

Who was Mahatma Gandhi?

10. 'Mahatma' means Great Soul… When your first name means Great

Soul you know you are going to be awesome!


Gandhi was the leader of the Indian movement against British rule

11. He is considered the Father of India.


Gandhi created a policy of non-violent protest to achieve important goals for India.

12. Protest - The act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and

disapproval


Important!!!

All of Gandhi’s protest against British Rule in India were PEACEFUL…this is almost unheard of in

modern times


Born in Porbandar in Gujarat on

October 2, 1869


He believed the universe was regulated by a Supreme Intelligence which he called Satya (Truth)


Gandhi was married by arrangement at age 13

Arranged Marriage - a marriage in which neither the bride or the groom has any say over who they

can marry.


Kasturba Gandhi (Wife) and children


14. Gandhi moved to England in 1891 and began Law School. He began to work as a

lawyer in Bombay, India


From 1893 to 1914 he worked as a lawyer in South Africa.

While in South Africa he began to see racial discrimination towards India


15. He assumed leadership of protest campaigns and gradually developed his

techniques and tenets of nonviolent resistance known as Satyagraha

Satyagraha – “steadfastness in truth” (Gandhi with friends in South Africa)


Returning to India in January 1915, Gandhi soon became involved in labor organizing.


16. The Amritsar massacre (1919), in which British troops fired on and killed

hundreds of nationalist

demonstrators, turned Gandhi to

direct political protest’s.

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17. In 1920 Gandhi became a politician in the

Indian National Congress He wanted to work towards a unified

India without Britain ruling them. (Capital Building)


Gandhi continued civil disobedience, organizing protest marches against unpopular British measures,


18. A campaign of nonviolent protest against the British salt tax in colonial

India which began with the Salt March to Dandi on March 12, 1930.


Indians were unhappy with the tax that the British put on Salt

Gandhi decided to organize a boycott of British salt and walk to the ocean where salt was free.


19. Boycott – Refuse to use, to sponsor, or to do business with.


Along the way hundreds of Indians joined Gandhi on his non-violent Salt March.


20/21. Gandhi was repeatedly imprisoned by the British and

resorted to hunger strikes as part of his civil disobedience.


Hunger strikes - A strike where one

does not eat


22. His final imprisonment came in 1942-44, after he had demanded total withdrawal of the

British (the "Quit India" movement) during World War II.


Gandhi was also tireless in trying to forge friendships between the Hindu people and

Muslims. 23. The Hindu and Muslim religions did not

see eye to eye.


24. His greatest failure was his inability to discourage Indian Muslims, led by

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, from creating a separate state, Pakistan.


25. Pakistan became a country in 1947. They are still constantly fighting with

India and the threat of Nuclear War is always on the Horizon.



26. On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer

meeting.


27. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu separatist who said Gandhi was responsible for

weakening India by insisting upon giving financial aide to Pakistan


Remember at this time Pakistan had just broke away from India and created a new country.

They were very poor and Gandhi wanted to help them by giving them money to help create a government.


Gandhi’s Funeral




Mahatma Gandhi’s body lay with his head to the north In that position Buddha met his end.

Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre. The logs burst into flames.


Gathering Gandhi’s Ashes


Gandhi's ashes are at Aga Khan Palace (Pune, India).



Gandhi dedicated his life to the wider purpose of discovering truth.

He tried to achieve this by learning from his own mistakes

Conducting experiments Gandhi stated that the most important battle to

fight was overcoming his own demons, fears, and insecurities.


"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.“

“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.“

"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."

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