1. <span>This article is about the rule of the </span>British Crown<span> from 1858 to 1947 over the Indian subcontinent. For the previous rule of the </span>East India Company<span> which existed from 1757 to 1858, see </span>Company rule in India<span>.
2.The Indians did that because the British helped them to develop new technology and they also defended each other by fighting side by side if there was anything attacking them.
3.</span>Most of those killed were Indian nationalists meeting to protest the British government’s forced conscription of Indian soldiers and the heavy war tax imposed against the Indian people.
A few days earlier, in reaction to a recent escalation in protests, Amritsar was placed under martial law and handed over to British Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, who banned all meetings and gatherings in the city.
4.The massacre stirred nationalist feelings across India and had a profound effect on one of the movement’s leaders, Mohandas Gandhi. During World War I, Gandhi had actively supported the British in the hope of winning partial autonomy for India, but after the Amritsar Massacre he became convinced that India should accept nothing less than full independence.
5.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in South Africa at the age of 24 and left at the age of 45. These 21 years, most of which he spent in South Africa, were the most crucial years in his life.
6.On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.
7.<span>In an event that would have dramatic repercussions for the people of India, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg.
8.</span>The Salt March, which took place from March to April 1930 in India, was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi<span> (1869-1948) to protest British rule in India.
9.</span><span>The Salt Satyagraha campaign that began in 1930 sought to continue previous efforts that had attempted to undermine British colonial rule in India and establish Purna Swaraj (complete self-rule). The previous nationwide nonviolent campaign for independence (1919-22) had been called off by Gandhi because it broke into disarray and violence
10.</span>The Partition of India was the 1947 partitioning of the British Indian Empire into India and Pakistan. It led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (which later split into Pakistan and Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of India<span>) on 14–15 August 1947.
11.</span>The Partition of India was the 1947 partitioning of the British Indian Empire<span> into India and Pakistan.</span>
