The End of Empire
Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 27 August 2015 Chapter 39 Outline End of Empire Mohandas K. Gandhi, ?Bapuji,? as he was called 1/30/1948, after India gained indep. From Brit, awakened at Birla House in Delhi at 3 AM to work on solutions to problems in India Worked on draft of constitution for Indian Nat'l Congress, stressing villages being empowered, discrimination based on caste system being abolished, religious intolerance between Hindus/Muslims cease Distraught over partitioning of his land to Hindu India/Muslim Pakistan, weakened himself after indep. Thru fasts/hunger strikes staged as satyagraha, ?truth/firmness,? protests against murders of Hindus/Muslims/mistreatment of Pakistan Weighed 107 lbs.