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