Question

Drag and drop the events to arrange them from the event that occurred first to the event that occurred last.

Answer 1

India and Britain have a long and complicated history, starting in the 1600's.

By the late 1770's, the East India Company was starting to slowing gain political and territorial power for over 100 years. By the late 1800's, parliament places India under the direct control of Britain.

In 1869, the Suez Canal was opened. This made British goods and textiles easy to ship to India. British textiles were cheaper and made faster (machine-made) than India's own handmade textiles. This caused India's textile industry to collapse.

India was not happy under British rule. By the 1920's Mahatma Gandhi started campaigning for "noncooperation" and encourages people to avoid anything British. In the 1930's, he lead the Salt March, in an attempt to end Britain's monopoly on the salt market.

By 1947, India won its independence from Britain. The Muslim League wanted their own state. Britain divided India into two separate states: Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India.

Britain then left and withdrew from South Asia.

Answer 2

India first became a part of the British Empire in 1858 when the British crown took control of the subcontinent from the East India Company and named it British Raj. For many years this nation remained under British rule and control. Although not completely harmonious and with conflicts arising from time to time, and with several principalities surrounding what is today known as India and Pakistan, still, the British managed to maintain control of one of their most important colonies. It was not until the end of the 19th century that Indians began to claim the British for self-governance and it was not until after World War I that true conflict began to arise as Indians began to demand independence from Britain. Something that suffered greatly with the control of India by Britain was the textile industry, which around the 18th century and 19th century was pretty strong. However, Britain begins to impose really high taxes and imported goods, especially textiles, become more affordable than the ones within the country. This causes a collapse of the industry.

Around 1915 a new character appears in the Indian sphere who, with his persistence and campagins, manages to move along and empower the independence movement. This character was Mahatma Ghandi. With his principle of civil disobedience, Gandhi proposes the people with several steps to overthrow English rule without using violence. One of these scenarios happens in 1919, when after the British attacked a peaceful manifestation during a Hindu fesitval, Gandhi calls people to oppose the British through a boycott to all imported goods from England, particularly clothing and manufactured goods. After a lot of manifestations and some violent activities, after the end of World War II, Britain finds itself overwhelmed by expenses and debt and sees itself as incapable of maintaining control over the Indian subcontinent. In the end, in 1946-47, Britain decides to turn control over to an Indian government and because of religious differences in the subcontinent between Muslims and Hindus, the region is partitioned into two new states, India and Pakistan. Finally, the British retire completely from their major colonies in the Southeast of Asia.

In summary, the order would be thus: d, c, b, e and a.