Flashcards
India key dates
Cards in this deck (12)
- 1partition of Bengal1905
- 2Morley Minto reforms1909:
- 60 Indian representatives to be elected to serve the viceroys executive council
- separate electorates for Hindu's and Muslims - 3First World War1914-18
Gandhi encouraged indians to sign up, but as soon as this did not grant independence Gandhi encouraged people to revolt - 4Montague Declaration1917
Britain was now implicitly committed to allowing Indians to govern themselves but within the context of the British empire, although no time scale was given and this angered many - 5the Monatgue-Chelmsford report and the Government of India act 1919- published July 1918- made law by the government of india act in December 1919
- The viceroy could now enforce laws even if the legislative councils rejected them and he could choose his own officials
- the provincial councils were given power over education, agriculture, health, local self-government and public works
- the British kept control over military matters, foreign affairs, currency, communications and criminal law
- reserved seats in provincial legislatures for different religions
DYARCHY - 6Rowlatt actsMarch 1919
isolated Bengal, Bombay and Punjab and enforced old wartime controls- imprisonment with trial, trial without a jury, censorship a house arrest of suspects
MONTAGUE DIDNT APPROVE - 7Amritsar massacre13 April 1919
misunderstanding- public meetings banned due to the recent hartals- innocent pilgrims celebrating a religious festival shot at in jallianwala bagh - 8Martial Law imposed on Amritsar14th April 1919
Aimed to humiliate Amritsar residents
- Any indian who passed Dyer must Salaam to him
- all third class railway tickets withdrawn, making it impossible for peasant indians to travel - 9Crawling orderAny indian who wished to pass through the lane in which Marcia Sherwood had been killed must crawl the length on all fours
- 10first civil disobedience campaign1919
- 11second civil disobedience campaign1920-22
- 12simon commission1927
seven english delegates travelling india to determine whether the government of india act of 1919 worked or not
- indians took this as a message that indians had know say in own indian politics