Across
- 2. the Indian idea of independence and self-sufficiency.
- 7. Hindi term for an organized strike
- 9. 1946 event which led to large-scale violence between Hindus and Muslims mostly around Calcutta.
- 10. Term for the division of a country
- 12. Organization formed in 1906 to protect the rights of Muslims in India.
- 14. Term for the boundary, created by a British mapmaker, that divided India and Pakistan.
- 15. 1919 event that caused an uptick in Indian unity and nationalism.
- 16. Last name of the creat of the Indian National Army, a militant nationalist.
Down
- 1. Company that really controlled India up to 1857
- 3. region of Northern India that is currently under dispute between India and Pakistan.
- 4. Leader who focused his life's work to the creeation of a free and secular India.
- 5. Organization that included Hindus and Muslims which pushed for the creation of a secular India, free from the British.
- 6. Series of laws that restricted habeas corpus for Indians after WWI.
- 8. Armed uprising of Indian soldiers against the British in 1857...aka the First Indian War of Independence.
- 11. Indian state that was partitioned in the early 1900s which ironically led to a lot of Hindu/Muslim unity.
- 13. Last name of the principal leader of the first president of Pakistan and creator of that state.