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= The India Revolution =

**How it Started:**
The british kept taking more and more control over the india trade. This sudden interest in India started in 1600s. india became super "needed" by the british. They made railroads go between them. India was their main place to focus at the time. India was their "jewel in the crown". India was both okay with this, and hurt by this. Britain had control over the political and economical India rights. At the same time, Britain was also helping India. They were making better schools, and improving how they lived. Britain Started trying to convert India to Christianity. As the resentment and nationalism grew, they started to hate being under Britians pawer. So when Gandhi started the noncooperation movement, even the soldiers followed. His approch to be nonviolent to win independece started to weaken Britains hold on India when he atarted Civil Disobieance. It started with India not buying things from Britain. Then they stopped attending school, they stopped paying taxes. They even stopped voting! They started making their oawn clothes, this was a big cost on Britain. Britian had put so much into India, that this was really taking a toll on them. They had a hard time keeping things going.

 What did India want to happen:
India wanted to get their independece from Britian. They didn't want to have to pay the out rageous taxes that the British had been making them pay. An example of something they did to stop taxes is The Salt March. They were only allowed to get their salt from the government, and had to pay taxes on it. So Gandhi and his followers went to the ocean. They made their own salt by evaporating ocean water. They went to place where the government made their salt. as they walked, police officers met them and beat them with metal tipped clubs. They where beat in the head, and they still they did not fight back. They just wanted to get their freedom, and not have to pay such harsh taxes.

How did it end:
Britain was deep in war debts, with India not cooperating, they had to give India independence. As this became known to India, problems stirred between the two main religions, Hindu and Muslim. They had there was a thing called the Congress Party, that tried to keep the religions alive, but it mostly Hindu. Very few muslims where in there. So the Muslims started the Muslim League, they focused on keeping the religion alive. they had all Muslims leave the Congress Party and join their group. The Muslim League had a rule that they would not accept their freedom if it was lead by the Hindus. This made the two religions split India, into Pakistan and then just India. The Muslims were in Pakistan, and the Hindu in India, since there were more Hindu. Other religions got little parts of India too. People and families all over India had to move to be in the area that support their beliefs. In 1947, the British gave independence to both Pakistan and India. As for Gandhi, he was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist, because the person thought that he was to protective of the Muslims, when he had only used his nonviolent act to ask if the Muslims could get some of the respect they deserved. He was killed on January 30th, 1948. After his death, Pakistan and India fought over who would have control over the little place called Kashmir. A fight with help from alliances left Pakistan in control of Kashmir, but India had control of the rest.