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9398961614decolonizationprocess in which many African and Asian states won their independence from Western colonial rule, in most cases by negotiated settlement with gradual political reforms and a program of investment rather than through military confrontation.0
9398961615Indian National CongressOrganization established in 1885 by Western-educated elite Indians in an effort to win a voice in the governance of India; became a major popular movement that won India's independence from Britain.1
9398961616Mahatma Gandhia political leader and the undoubted spiritual leader of the Indian drive for independence from Great Britain2
9398961617Muslim Leaguea response to the Indian National Congress in India's struggle for independence from Britain; the League's leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, argued that regions of India with a Muslim majority should form a separate state called Pakistan.3
9398961618Muhammad Ali Jinnahleader of India's All-India Muslim League and first president of the breakaway state of Pakistan (1876-1948).4
9398961619Abdul Ghaffar Khana Pashtun independence activist against the rule of the British Raj.5
9398961620African National CongressSouth African political party established in 1912 by elite Africans who sought to win full acceptance in colonial society; it only gradually became a popular movement that came to control the government in 1994.6
9398961621Nelson MandelaSouth African nationalist (b. 1919) and leader of the African National Congress who was imprisoned for twenty-seven years on charges of treason, sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid government of South Africa; he was elected president of South Africa in 1994, four years after he was finally released from prison.7
9398961622Black ConsciousnessSouth African movement that sought to foster pride, unity, and political awareness among the country's African majority and often resorted to violent protest against white minority rule.8
9398961623military governmentthe government established by a military commander in conquered territory to administer the military law declared by him under military authority applicable to all persons in the conquered territory and superseding any incompatible local law9
9398961625globalization of democracyDemocratic globalization is a social movement towards an institutional system of global democracy that would give world citizens a say in world organizations.10
9398961626import substitution industrializationa trade and economic policy which advocates replacing foreign imports with domestic production.11
9398961627export-led industrializationa trade and economic policy aiming to speed up the industrialization process of a country by exporting goods for which the nation has a comparative advantage.12
9398961628Mustafa Kemal Atatürkfounder and first president of the Republic of Turkey (1881—1938); as military commander and leader of the Turkish national movement, he made Turkey into a secular state.13
9398961629Ayatollah Ruhollah KhomeiniImportant Shia ayattolah (advanced scholar of Islamic law and religion) who became the leader of Iran's Islamic revolution and ruled Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.14
9398961630satyagraha"truth force"; Mahatma Gandhi's political philosophy, which advocated confrontational but nonviolent political action.15

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