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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
Write a question about partition using
what you learned today someone else
in the class could answer.
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know the answer to and put a star next
to it.