The British
Gandhi
Government
Geography
Vocabulary
100
The British brought many things that benefited the Indian people including teaching most this, which became a key unifying force and a large factor in the nationalist movement that would eventually lead to their independence.
What is the English language?
100
This is the country where Gandhi began practicing his tactic of civil disobedience.
What is South Africa?
100
He was a British educated Indian aristocrat who became the leader of the INC and independent India's first Prime Minister.
Who is Nehru?
100
This is the river that runs through present day Pakistan and begins in the Himalayan highlands in the Kashmir region.
What is the Indus river?
100
Nonviolence to all things.
What is ahimsa?
200
More than a million Indians served with the British army in this war.
What is WW1?
200
This was the basis of Gandhi's philosophy and known as "soul force" and basically meant the power of righteousness.
What is Satyagraha?
200
This is the type of democracy that is practiced in India.
What is Parliamentary democracy?
200
This is the current name of the former E. Pakistan.
What is Bangladesh?
200
This was the name given to the untouchables by Gandhi that meant children of God.
What is harijans?
300
These laws were passed by the British to try and quell, or lessen, the growing protests and political unrest and included rules against public gatherings leading to one of the great historical tragedies and turning points in India's struggle for independence.
What are the Rowlatt acts.
300
This movement, led by Gandhi, was basically a boycott of everything British; goods, schools, laws, etc..
What is non-cooperation?
300
This term refers to the British government in India.
What is The British Raj?
300
This west Indian region is home to the majority of the worlds Sikhs.
What is Punjab?
300
The Indian lower house in the legislative branch or "House of the People."
What is Lok Sabha?
400
Gandhi led thousands of Indians on one of the great symbolic acts of civil disobedience to protest the British monopoly on this essential product.
What is salt?
400
This event led directly to Gandhi changing his tactics regarding the British from cooperative to non-cooperative.
What is the Amritsar Massacre?
400
This group formed early in the struggle for Indian self rule, focused primarily on Muslim issues and was the major force in the partition of India upon independence.
What is the Muslim League?
400
This region, now part of India, was an independent state at the time of Indian independence and was ruled by Muslims despite its primarily Hindu population.
What is Hyderabad?
400
This organization of educated Indians was formed with the help of Englishman Alan Hume and eventually became the leaders of the independence movement.
What is the INC?
500
These British reforms in India foreshadowed the divisions along religious lines that would later come in India.
What is the Morley-Minto reforms?
500
Gandhi's tolerance toward Muslims led an extremist _________ to assassinate him in 1948 at a public prayer meeting.
What is Hindu?
500
This group elects the members of the Rajya Sabha or upper house of the Indian legislature.
What are State legislatures?
500
___________ is the holiest of rivers in India which flows into the Bay of __________.
What is the Ganges and Bengal?
500
This is the system of increased Indian participation in government that began after WWII as part of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms.
What is a dyarchy?
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