HIS 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Acid Rain, Jim Crow Laws, Feminine Hygiene
17 Apr 2018
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Gandhi leads civil disobedience to fight from freedom. Hunger strikes- went a month without hard food except glass of water with lemon. 1947, the birth grant india its independence. When india gets its independence, nehru- ga(cid:374)dhi"s f(cid:396)ie(cid:374)d (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)es the fi(cid:396)st p(cid:396)i(cid:373)e minister. When india gets the independen(cid:272)e, (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) i(cid:374)dia the(cid:396)e"s a la(cid:396)ge musli(cid:373) populatio(cid:374) Whe(cid:374) i(cid:374)dia gets its i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t, (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) musli(cid:373)s thought that the(cid:455) (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e t(cid:396)eated fairly. An organisation comes around called muslim league. Demands indian government create separate homeland for muslim population. Solution: 1947- they are going to create second homeland, create a country called. Pakistan and will be the homeland for the muslim population. Pakistan was divided into two separate regions; east pakistan and west pakistan. The hindus from pakistan are going to be forced into india and vice versa. He knew that when you have than many people crossing, the cultural differences between two might lead to a major war between two ethnic groups.
