Honors World History Final: India
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Raj | the British-controlled portions of India in the years 1757-1947 |
| Sepoy | An Indian soldier serving under British command. |
| Satyagrapha | Civil disobediance that Gahndi followed. |
| Robert Clive | This man was a British soldier who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown. |
| Homespun | Word that refers to the clothing Indians made for themselves as opposed to buying it from the British - a way of showing their patriotism |
| Viceroy | a governor who ruled as a representative of a monarch |
| Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. |
| Muslim League | Organization formed by Indian Muslims in 1906 to protect their interests against British rule |
| Queen Victoria | queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901) |
| Salt March | passive resistance campaign of Mohandas Gandhi where many Indians protested the British tax on salt by marching to the sea to make their own salt. |
| Amritsar Massacre | To protest the Rowlatt Act, Indians gathered in Amritsar, where British troops fired on the crowd killing several hundred. This sparked further protests |
| General Dyer | British general that commanded his troops to open fire at the mass of protestors gathered at Amritsar |
| Pakistan | a nation in southern Asia; created by the division of India in 1947 |
| Bangladesh | Founded as an independent nation in 1972; formerly East Pakistan. |
| British East India Company | Created when the British began economic interest in India in the 1600's. They set up trading posts at Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. They considered India as the most valuable of all of their colonies |
| Sepoy Rebellion | The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs |
| Green Revolution | the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity |
| Mohandas Gandhi | A philosopher from India, this man was a spiritual and moral leader favoring India's independence from Great Britain. He practiced passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts to generate social and political change. |
| Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms | Indians given control over health education and agriculture. British would control finance and law and order |
| Rowlatt Act | Passed in 1919, this allowed the British ruling government to jail any protester without trial for a maximum of two years. |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964). |
| Indira Gandhi | daughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 (1917-1984) |
| Rajiv Gandhi | was the 7th Prime Minister of India; He also was responsible for sending Indian troops for peace efforts in Sri Lanka |
| Benazir Bhutto | became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988. Heir to the political legacy of her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (prime minister from 1971 to 1977), she was the first woman in modern times to head the government of an Islamic state. |
| Quit India Campaign | Refusing to support the colonial British government's involvement in World War II by the National Congress Party. |
| Kashmir | A region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent; India and Pakistan disputed control of it. |
| Mohammad Ali Jinnah | the leader of the Muslim League who worked with Gandhi for independence |
| Lord Mountbatten | Last British viceroy of India |
| Kasturba Gandhi | wife of Mohandas Gandhi |
| William Bentinck | Served as governor general of India in the early nineteenth century. He took steps to suppress Sati. He also made English the new language and tried economic reforms. |
| Sati | The traditional practice of burning a widow on her husband's funeral pyre; outlawed in 1829, though it still occurs rarely. |
| Ram Mohun Roy | "Father of Modern India" modern thinking, tried to move India towards independance and away from traditional ideas |
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