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Key Individuals
- JINNAH
- Responsible for
Direct Action Day &
became Governor
General of Pakistan.
- GANDHI
- London educated lawyer who gained mass support for
Congress. Main principle was non-violence in
campaigning for India's independence.
- M. NEHRU
- Wrote Nehru report to present
Indians views.
- JOHN MORLEY
- Secretary of State for India -
Reforms of 1909 (seen as
attempt to divide and rule?)
- BOSE
- Commanded the INA who attempted to defeat the British in
WW2. Killed in a plane crash in 1942.
- IRWIN
- Viceroy 1926-31
- Well liked and
conciliatory
viceroy.
- Arranged the
Roundtable
Conferences.
1931 made pact
with Gandhi.
- ANNIE BESANT
- British woman -
leader of Home Rule
league in WW1 and
leader of Congress
in 1917.
- TILAK
- Ran one of the
Home Rule
leagues in WW1.
Also and important
Congress leader -
led extremists.
- GOKHALE
- Led moderates within
Congress and dominated after
the Partition of Bengal.
- CURZON
- Viceroy 1898-1905
- Wanted to
streamline
administration of
India and
destroy
influence of
Congress.
- Partitioned
Bengal in
1905 and
created the
NWFP
- GENERAL DYER
- Carried out Amritsar
Massacre in 1919.
Introduced Crawling
Order.
- MOUNTBATTEN
- Viceroy 1947
- Introduced Plan Balkan. Biased
towards Congress - close friend of
Nehru's.
- WAVELL
- Viceroy 1943-7
- Viceroy during the Bengal
famine - known as a 'man
for solutions'
- LINLITHGOW
- Viceroy 1936-43
- CHURCHILL
- Believed India was the
'jewel in the crown'. Prime
Minister 1940-45 - sent the
Cripps Mission.
- ATTLEE
- Labour politician with strong
Congress bias. Replaced Wavell
with Mountbatten - was Prime
Minister 1945-51.
- SIR CYRIL RADCLIFFE
- British Lawyer who drew the
line that partitioned India.
- EDWIN MONTAGUE
- Introduced reforms in 1919 (Gov. of India
Act) that created dyarchy. Made a
declaration in 1917 that committed Britain to
giving India home rule.
- QUEEN VICTORIA
- First Briton to control India. Made
Royal Proclamation in 1858 and was
Empress of India.
- SARDAR PATEL
- Took position of Home Affairs
minister in Interim Government.
- J NEHRU
- Member of the 'Young Hooligans' who
wanted purna swaraj. Became first
prime minister of India.
- PETHICK-LAWRENCE
- Part of the Cabinet mission
(secretary of state of India at the
time).
- MUHAMMAD ALI KHAN
- Represented Muslim League on
Council in Interim Government.
Pushed for British to leave
quicker than they wanted to.
- CRIPPS
- Sent to India on Cripps
Mission and Cabinet Mission.
Showed bias to Congress in
Cabinet Mission.
- ROOSEVELT
- Keen to give India independence -
didn't believe in empires. Put pressure
on Churchill to get Britain out of India
(Atlantic Charter 1941).