Modern India

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Modern India
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Before the British

• Indus Valley
• Cradle civilization

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British India

• Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire
• British control Egypt and Suez Canal
• 1856-1857
• Sepoys revolt against British rule

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The need for change

• Indians become educated
• The more educated they became, the more they
  longed to get rid of British Imperialism.

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Mohandas Gandhi

• Educated in Britain
• Trained as a barrister (lawyer)
• Works in South Africa
• Nonviolence resistance
• Salt March
• Fasting
• July 1947, Independence Bill
• Partitioning of India
• January 30, 1948, Gandhi is assassinated

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Mother Theresa

• Born 1910
• 1931, took vows as nun
• Work in Calcutta
• Untouchables
• Missionaries of Charity