1. Who’s Got Two Thumbs and Is Kind of A Big Deal?
Unit 5: Modern India

2. Mohandas Gandhi 1869-1948 Born as a Kshatriya Studied in London
Wants Equality
Studied in London
Takes a job in South Africa
Works against discrimination
Develops Satyagraha
“Devotion to truth”
Civil Disobedience- Nonviolent
Blend All Religions
Becomes known as Mahatma
“Great Soul”

3. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”

4. Mohammad Ali Jinnah 1876-1948 Studied at Bombay University
Became a lawyer
Elected President of Muslim League in 1916.
Already a member of Indian National congress
Split with INC in 1920 over ‘non cooperation.”
Leader of the Pakistan Independence movement
First Leader of Independent Paksitan

5. Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience Movement
Unit 5: India

6. Gandhi's Theory on Civil Disobedience
Does one have a moral obligation to always obey the law?
Should one obey an unjust law?
Civil Disobedience-disobeying unjust laws

7. Gandhi's Non Cooperation Movement: 1920
Boycotts
Refuse to buy British Goods
Refuse to attend government schools
Pay taxes
Vote in elections
Ride railroad
1 day work stoppage
Gandhi and Jinnah split over the issue

8. Non Cooperation Movement results
British economy suffered.
Jails became overcrowded.
Muslims and Hindu’s Split
Several British officers were murdered.
Gandhi Calls off movement

9. Salt March: 1930 British have monopoly on Salt.
Control sale and tax
Gandhi wants to break monopoly
March 241 miles to Dandi
Spoke to crowds
Followers grew larger
Picked up natural salt when he reached Dandi
60,000 arrested w/ Gandhi

10. The Tides Begin to Turn
Unit 5: Modern India

11. Movement Towards Victory
1935 Government of India Act:
Limited self gov’t
Democratic elections
Tensions still exist between Hindus and Muslims
Why?
Who will Rule?

12. Final Push WWII Who will rule? Muhammad Ali Jinnah
British Exhausted
Negotiations begin
Who will rule?
Hindus or Muslims
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pushes for Pakistan
Violence erupts in Calcutta
August 1946
Thousands dead & Injured