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WHEN THE SECOND WAR WAR ENDED IN IN 1945 COUMTRIES LIKE BRITAIN AND FRANCE OWNED LARGE EMPIRES IN COUNTRIES LIKE AFRICA AND ASIA BUT THE PEOPLE IN THEM COUNTRIES WANTED TO RULE THEMSELFES SO THE LARGE EMPIRES COULD NO LONGER AFFORD TO HOLD ONTO THEM.INDIA WAS CONTROLLED BY THE BRITISH THR BRITISH OWNED MANY COLONIES BUT THE INDIAN COLONY GAVE BRITISH WEALTH FROM PRODUCTS SUCH AS TEA RAW COTTON AND OTHER MATERIALS WHICH MADE INDIA THEE MOST IMPORTANT COLONY ALYHOUGH THR BRITISH DID SET UP SHHOLS AND RAILWAYS AND INTRODUCED THE FAIR LEGAL TRADE SYSTEM THEY DID TAX THE INDIANS HEAVILY AND THE MOST IMPORTANT JOBS WENT TO THE BRSITISH THE CONGRESS PARTY WAS SET TO TRY GET INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA IN 1920 GHANDIBECAME THE LEADER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PARTY HE WANTED TO UNITE ALL ALL RELIGIONS AND ALL CLAAES TOGETHER HE ATE AND DRANK LIKE THE PEASANTS AND EVEN LIVED AND DRESSED LIKE THEM THIS WON THEM OVER TO THR PARTY. HE URGED TO BOYCOTT BRITSIH GOODS AND DIDNT WANT TO WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN 1921 THE BRITISH AGREED TO ELECT LOCAL COUNCILS AND THE THE CONGRESS PARTY WON THE MOST VOTES LORD MOUNTBATTEN WAS THE LAST VICEROY TO BE SEND OVER TO INDIA TO SPLIT INDIA NTO TWO TIS WAS THE PARITTION PALN NEHRU BELIEVD THAT THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO AVID CIVIL WAR SO GHANDI HAD TO AGREE TO IT IN 1947 THE INDIA INDEPENDENCE ACT WAS PASSED THIS SPLIT MUSLIMS AND HINDUS AND ALSO PAKISTAN WAS SPLIT INTO WEST AND EAST PAKISTAN WHEN REFUGESS WERE FLEEING ABOUT 1 MILLION OF THEM WERE MASSACRED THE PUNJAB COMMUNITY SUFFRERED SEVERLY AND WERE ATTACKED BY THE MUSLIMS THE FIGHT OVER THE KASHMIR PROVINCE WAS THE CAUS OF THE INDIAN PAKISTAN WAR 1947 TO 1948GHANDI WAS ASSINATED BY NATHURUM GODSE