Marked Amritsar

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Indian independence and Partition

After decades of protest, led above all by Mohandas Gandhi’s non-violent campaigns, British rule in India ended in August 1947. The land was partitioned into India and Pakistan, and in the violence and migration that followed perhaps a million people died.

Place
Amritsar · Dandi · Delhi · Lahore · WagahAsia
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeThe British Raj.

  1. IGandhi comes home
  2. IIAmritsar, 1919
  3. IIIThe Salt March
  4. IVQuit India
  5. VPartition
  6. VIA new constitution

AfterIndia and Pakistan, independent and divided.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • B. R. Ambedkar
  • Sarojini Naidu

Objects

  • Gandhi’s spinning wheel
  • The Radcliffe Line map

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1915 to 1948. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?