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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Nonviolent Resistance and Indian Independence

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a lesson from a unit on 20th Century and Modern Poetry focuses on Mohondas Gandhi and his nonviolent resistance against British rule of India. It features links to Gandhi's biography, his ejection from a train in...
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eBook
Library of Congress

Loc: Country Study: India

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site from the Library of Congress that covers all kinds of topics about India. Includes a very detailed history of British India under "Company Rule, 1757-1857," "The British Raj, 1858-1947," and "Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-59."...
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eBook
Other

Unique Novelist: A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full-text ebook of A Passage to India by E. M. Forster available to read online or download. Includes a brief biography of the author.
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History Teacher

Historyteacher.net: Global Studies: The Road to Independence on the Subcontinent Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Nine multiple choice question quiz is immediately scored and tests your comprehension of the Indian independence movement.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc Audio Interviews: Mohandas Gandhi

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of the leader of India's independence movement, Mohandas Gandhi.
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Website
BBC

Bbc History: British History: Modern Britain: Hidden Story of Partition

For Students 9th - 10th
The author describes how India and Pakistan were created as a result of a division of the British colony of India and what problems and issues developed as a result of their separation. Archived.
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Website
McMaster University

Mc Master University: Mahatma Gandhi Lectures on Nonviolence

For Students 9th - 10th
The Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University established the Mahatma Gandhi Lecture series to promote the values of nonviolent resistance. Most of the speeches, all by prominent activists and leaders, are available here.
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Website
Other

The Hindu: Sept. 11: Creating History of a Different Kind

For Students 9th - 10th
The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 is compared to Mohandas Gandhi's response to oppression of Indians in South Africa on September 11, 1906. On that day, he led a nonviolent protest against the Natal Government to...
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Website
University of California

University of California: Noncooperation

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion from the University of California of Gandhi's initiation of the noncooperation movement which eventually led to his arrest.
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Curated OER

Indian Support Was Lent During World War One

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed and insightful article which examines the colonial rule of the British in India. The author explores the origins, the Indian independence movement, how the British gave up India and more.
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Curated OER

Midnight of August 14, 1947

For Students 9th - 10th
This site profiles many of India's leaders in the India independence movement.

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