I have chosen this topic as I am personally interested in Mahatma Gandhi and his role during the British colonization of India.
2. Background
End of the 15th century: European interest in India
Managing of their interests through trading companies
The British East India Company
The French Compagnie francaise des Indes
Further involvement in Indian affairs
Their own economic
Competition between the parts involved Battles
3. British Colonization
Great Britain winning most battles
Economical and geographical expansion
Absolute control
End of 19th century: Dissatisfactions with the circumstances started to rise
1885: The Indian National Congress
1920: Mahatma Gandhi becoming leader
1947: Decolonization of India
4. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mahatma: Great soul
Lawyer in South Africa 1888-1991 Ideas on civil disobedience and non-violence
1915: Return to India satyagraha
1920: Campaign of non-co-operation
Non-successful boycotts
Salt-march
Protests and riot
“Man of the year”
Quit India
Britain engulfed in ww2 British withdrawal
Aga Khan Palace
Assassination a year after the decolonization of India
Nathuram Godse Point-blank range
5. Gandhi influence on the world today
Today, Indians, anti-war protestors and authors
Celebrate Gandhi as a preeminent figure.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence
Solve race relations in America
Sources.
https://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898
“India”, Fact finder (Gyldendal) by Conrad Kisch
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