Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Factors regarding Independence.
- World
War
1
- Indians were not rewarded for
their service to Britain in the
war.
- The carnage that Indian soldiers
experienced proved to them that
white Europeans were no better
then themselves.
- This was aggravated by the
incompetence of the Mesopotamia
Campaign - Indian troops were
under-equipped and badly led.
- The Lucknow Pact
- World
War
2
- Lord Linlithgow announced
India was at war without
consulting Indian political
leaders.
- He claimed that India would
be fighting for liberty and
democracy, while Britain
was denying it for India
- The Atlantic Charter
- August 1941
- Included support for "sovereign Rights
and self governance" Churchill didn't
think this applied to Britain and the
Empire
- The Cripps Mission
- Quit India