Modern Political History – India Colonization and Partition
On a separate piece of paper or a Word document in OneDrive, answer the following questions IN COMPLETE
SENTENCES, using information from the India Political History powerpoint and these sections of the TCI
textbook.
Page 375-76: teachtci.com, Chapter 25 “The British Raj”
Page 376-381: teachtci.com, Chapter 25 “Independence for India”
1. Define British Raj on your Key Terms handout.
2. When did the British Raj begin and end? How long did it last?
3. Explain at least three impacts of the British Raj on the Indian people.
4. How does life look for the British in India during the Raj? (analyze the powerpoint photographs)
5. Who was Mohandas Gandhi (at least three sentences)?
6. Why was he called Mahatma Gandhi?
7. Define Satyagraha/Civil Disobedience on your Key Terms Handout.
8. Analyze the two photos of Gandhi in the powerpoint. What conclusions can you draw from these photos?
(at least three sentences)
9. Explain Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement and some of its strategies (at least three sentences).
10. What did Gandhi’s followers hope to achieve by engaging in civil disobedience? (at least three sentences)
11. How did the British respond to Indian acts of civil disobedience in the early 1920s?? (at least three sentences)
12. Explain the significance Gandhi’s most significant Satyagraha, the Salt March, who participated and who didn’t.
(at least three sentences)
13. What happened to the relationship between Hindus and Muslims as the independence movement in India
grew?
14. As independence for India looked increasingly likely, what were the two different views of what the
outcome of independence should be?
15. Define partition on your Key Terms Handout.
16. When did India achieve independence?
17. What were the political impacts of independence and partition? (at least three sentences)
18. What were the social impacts of partition (how did the partition affect the population)? (at least three
sentences).
19. The countries of India and Pakistan did not have an organized plan for the partition before it took place.
What do you imagine the complications might be in dividing a country’s resources, infrastructure and
people into two different countries? (at least three sentences)