Essential Question

What led to the partition in India?

Warm-Up

Copy the vocab terms into your notebook:

Partition - The action or state of dividing or

being divided into parts.

Apartheid - (in South Africa) a policy or

system of segregation or discrimination on

grounds of race.

Agenda

Vocabulary word

Guided notes

Chachaji’s cup

Muslims and Mughals

Starting in the 700s different groups of

Muslims invaded India

Over time Muslims became a large minority

group in India

In 1526 a Muslim group from Central Asia

called the Mughals made India part of their

empire

A late Mughal ruler, Shah Jahan built the Taj

Mahal

Independence

Traders from Portugal, the Netherlands,

Great Britain, and France had set up

trading posts on India’s coast

In 1858 Britain established direct rule over

most of India

Britain put taxes on Indians, took over

Indian lands and passed laws that gave

British more rights

Indian National Congress

In 1885 the Indian National Congress, INC,

was formed to gain equal status for Indians

The organization included members from all

over India

An Indian lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi

became one of the best known leader for

independence from Britain

Nonviolent Resistance

Gandhi used nonviolence resistance to

force the British to give up their rule

Examples are holding marches,

refusing to buy British products, and

refusing to pay taxes, teaching that all

religions can live peacefully together

Muslim League

Some Muslims members of the INC

were afraid of a Hindu majority in the

government after independence

They decided to create another group

call the Muslim League

At first, the Muslim’s League’s goal

was to give Muslims a role in the

Indian government

Muslim League continued

But they began to worry they would

suffer discrimination under a Hindu

majority

They demanded India be split into two

independent countries, one Hindu, one

Muslim

Independence and Partition

Indian independence was granted in 1947

India was partitioned into India, a Hindu majority and Pakistan, had the Muslim majority

Pakistan was separated into two regions west and east- now called Bangladesh

During the split there was a huge migration of Hindus and Muslims

Millions were killed

Exit slip

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