WOH-1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Great Chinese Famine, Jawaharlal Nehru
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By the 1930s, the movement for noncooperation, which was championed by gandhi, was beginning to bear some fruits . The 1937 election in india the british nally allowed elections to be held, these were provisional elections, giving people in their little communities some autonomy. Won 8 out of 11 of the provinces. He was the head of the national indian congress. Was put in a tough spot, because nehru"s winning showed what an independent indian nation would look like showed how the minority population of indian muslims would be a ected. This election reopened some of the divides that existed between the hindus and muslim population. Indians from all religions would turn out and volunteer to enlist in the indian army to ght with the british in the 2nd world war. As the war went on, however, resistance for the war began to grow.
