RELG 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jawaharlal Nehru, Religious Pluralism, Indira Gandhi

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 353
• Professor: Michael Gollner

Document Summary

Made indian leaders an offer: full self government after the war in exchange. Break down in negotiations about indian participation in the war effort. Thought )ndia should take advantage of britian"s weakened state during the. This changed in (cid:883)94(cid:884) with gandhi"s (cid:498)quite )ndia movement(cid:499) Major civil disobedience movement, which called for an (cid:498)orderly british withdrawal(cid:499) Japanese invasion of burma, britian was anxious to have )ndia"s full for )ndia"s participation in the war effort. Logistics were not fully worked out and ultimately it wasn"t good for either. When negotiations failed gandhi delivered famous (cid:498)quit )ndia(cid:499) speech. British said they wouldn"t discuss terms of )ndependence until after the war. Often portrayed wearing a khadi cap (cid:523)(cid:498)gandhi(cid:499) cap(cid:524) Tradition to wear this cap as symbol of nationalism. Nehru=son of motilal nehru (another leader of independence movement, Arrested after this speech followed by demonstrations across india but the. British very quickly repressed resistance within a matter of weeks.