The Indian independence movement was the long political struggle to end British rule in the subcontinent. Opposition began with local revolts, and the great uprising of 1857 led Britain to take over rule from the East India Company. The Indian National Congress, founded in 1885, at first asked for greater Indian participation in government, and later demanded self-rule. Under Mahatma Gandhi, the movement adopted mass nonviolent civil disobedience, with campaigns such as the Salt March. Other strands included revolutionary groups and Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army. The Muslim League under Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded a separate state, and after the Quit India movement and the Second World War, British rule ended with the partition of India and Pakistan.
Before and after
- 23 August 1856Earthquake in Oshima, Japan
- from 19 October 1856 to 12 January 1964Sultanate of Zanzibar
- 18 December 1856Birth of Joseph John Thomson
- 28 December 1856Birth of Woodrow Wilson
- from 1857 to 1947Indian independence movement
- 1857Rise of Symbolism
- 1857Founding of Kuala Lumpur
- 1857Publication of Madame Bovary
- 1857Rise of spiritism
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