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India

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British East India Company wins trading rights in India
early 1600s
Sepoy Rebellion
1857
Creation of the Indian National Congress
1885
Spanish-American War
1898
US annexes Hawaii
1898
Armristar Massacre
1919
Salt March
1930
India granted independence
1947
nonviolence and reverence for life
Ahimsa
the refusal to obey unjust laws
civil disobedience
people in the lowest castes
Dalits
political and diplomatic independence from the Cold War super powers
nonalignment
members of the lowest class
untouchables
representative who ruled India in the name of the British monarch
viceroy
dividing the subcontinent into 2 nations
partition
the isolation of women in separate quarters
Purdah
a Hindu custom practiced mainly bt the upper classes that for the widow to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral fire
Sati
Indian soldier
Sepoy

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