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| The most valuable of all the British colonies |
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| An 1857 rebellion of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the British in India |
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British rule after India came under the British crown during the reign of Queen Victoria
British take direct command of India |
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| In 1919, the British passed a set of laws that allowed the government to jail protesters without trial for as long as 2 years |
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| Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indins gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts |
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| Indian leader whose strategy of resistance of British rule evolved from his religious beliefs. He believed in using civil disobedience. |
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| Deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and nonviolence as the means to achieve independence |
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| A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Gandhi led his followers on a 240 mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater |
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| India's national political party |
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| An organization founded in 1906 in India to o protect Muslim interests |
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| The term given to the division of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations |
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| Independent India's first prime minister |
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| Prime minister of India who was murdered in response to attacks on Sikhs |
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| Prime minister of India after her father's execution |
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