How Was India Decolonized? - Explained in 12 Minutes

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♦In April 1919, soldiers sealed the main exit of a walled garden in Amritsar and opened fire on the crowd inside. They stopped only when they were nearly out of ammunition. The empire that gave that order ruled a fifth of humanity. Within three decades, it would be gone from India entirely. How does the largest colonial administration in history come apart? Not in a single battle, but through a debating society of lawyers, a war that asked for loyalty and gave little back, a man who walked to the sea to pick up a handful of salt, and a second war that made one question impossible to ignore. And when the end finally came, it came in a hurry. A border drawn in five weeks by a man who had never been to India before. Tens of millions on the move. Hundreds of princes who had to choose a side. One region whose choice is still being fought over.

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00:00 British Treatment
01:08 The Birth of Indian Nationalism
03:39 Congress and the Muslim League
04:12 World War I and Jallianwala Bagh
05:26 Gandhi and the Salt March
06:41 World War II and Quit India
07:47 The Road to Partition
09:56 The Princely States
10:39 Goa and the Last European Flag

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