Mahatma Gandhi's Life

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July 31, 1907

The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members; Gandhi and others refuse to register. Their resistance efforts mark the first use of nonviolent non-cooperation by the Indian minority in South Africa, soon called satyagraha, or "soul-force."

March 12-April 6, 1930

Gandhi leads his Salt March to the sea

Autumn 1931

Gandhi participates in the Round Table Conference in Britain

June 10, 1891

Gandhi passes the bar exam in England

January 26, 1930

Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India

March 1922-January 1924

Gandhi remains in prison

January 9, 1915

Gandhi returns home to India, and receives a hero's welcome

December 28, 1931

Gandhi returns to India

1901

Gandhi returns to India to attend the Indian National Congress

Spring 1896

Gandhi returns to India to collect his wife and children

December 1896

Gandhi returns to S.A w/ his family

July 18, 1914

Gandhi sails to England

1901-1906

Gandhi struggles toward Brahmacharya, or celibacy, finally ending his sexual activity in 1906

1909

Gandhi travels to London, pushing for rights of South African Indians. The Transvaal registration law is repealed

1935

Government of India Act passes British Parliament and is implemented in India; it is the first movement toward independence

August-December 1948

India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan

August 15, 1947

Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan

Nov 13, 1913

Indians in Natal and Transvaal, under Gandhi's leadership, march peacefully in protest of a racist poll tax and marriage laws. The marches continue through the winter

January 1931

British government yields to protests, releases all prisoners, invites a Congress representative to Britain for a Round Table Conference (the Congress asks Gandhi to be this representative)

August 1942

Congress leaders are arrested; Gandhi is imprisoned in the Aga Khan's palace

1885

Death of Gandhi's father

February 22, 1944

Death of Kasturbai

1925

Despite his long absence from politics, Gandhi becomes President of the Indian National Congress

Summer 1944

Gandhi visits Muhammed Ali Jinnah in Bombay, but is unable to work out an agreement that will keep India whole

October 10, 1908

Gandhi is arrested again, spends a month in jail

January 11, 1908

Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison

March 10, 1922

Gandhi is arrested for sedition

January 4, 1932

Gandhi is arrested for sedition, and held without a trial

March 2, 1930

Gandhi warns the Viceroy of his intention to break the Salt Laws

May 5, 1930

Gandhi is arrested for violating the Salt Laws; non-cooperation movements break out across India

April 13, 1919

Amritsar Massacre; Under General Dyer, British troops slaughter Indian protesters

Oct 2, 1869

Birth of Mohandas Karamehand Gandhi

1883

Gandhi & Kasturbai are married

April 1893

Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising on a lawsuit

June 30, 1914

Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests

May 25, 1915

Gandhi and his followers found Satyagraha ashram, the religiously-oriented communal farm where Gandhi, his family, and his followers will live

August 1914

Gandhi arrives in England, just at the outbreak of World War I(1914-1918)

1924-1928

Gandhi avoids politics, focusing his writings on the improvement of India

1934-38

Gandhi avoids politics, travels in rural India

August 1, 1920

Gandhi calls for a period of non-cooperation across India

Spring 1894

Gandhi elects to stay on S.A, and founds the Natal India Congress

1891-1893

Gandhi fails as a lawyer in India

Sept 20-25, 1932

Gandhi fasts in prison to protest the treatment of untouchables

February 10 to March 2, 1943

Gandhi fasts while imprisoned, to protest British rule

Sept 4, 1888

Gandhi goes to England to study law

January 30, 1948

Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist

1904

Nationalists found the magazine the India Opinion, and soon print it on Gandhi's farm, the "Phoenix Settlement"

April 6, 1919

Nationalists hold a hartal, or day of fasting and prayer, in protest of the Rowlatt Act, which drastically curtails civil liberties in India

October 1899

Outbreak of Boer War (1899-19010 in S.A

February-August 1928

Residents in the district of Bardoli protest high rents using methods of non-cooperation inspired by Gandhi

August 8, 1942

The Indian National Congress rejects the Cripps proposal, and declares it will grant its support for the British war effort only in return for independence

September 1939

World War II begins, lasting until 1945


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