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1919 Self-Determination Movements in India
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 6, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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disobedience, mobilized, Canada, backward, civilians, Lenin, Consequences, Dyer, European, unfair, resistance, hemorrhaging, George, reconcile, oppression, retrospective, revolutionary, Determination, British, India, Keynes, Amritsar, optimist, failure
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in retrospect, we know that the powers being imagined in 1919 were doomed to               
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we have to resist the temptations to engage in the                            fallacy
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to read history                  as if people should have known at the time that what they imagined as doomed
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Wilson was an                 
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lessons could be learned from the First World War
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many warned that the peace was unsustainable
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turning African and Middle East colonies into protectorates
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John Maynard             
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advisor in France to the                delegation
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appalled at what he saw
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wrote one of the great polemical tracts of the 20th century: "The Economic                          of the Peace"
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the treaty was vengeful,             , and pays little attention to the economic consequences of its terms
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the victors drove too high a price over the defeated and that there would be a war in response to it
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the discourse of the Wilson and            models
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self-determination
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Wilson
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the problem of self-determination would                    the conflicts at the core of the system
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one needed a democratic constitution in Europe as the core
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put an end to the                  conflict
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what to do with the multicultural empires that were now nations
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Africa
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Asia
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                     ensued from these territories
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India fastened on this idea of self-determination
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political cartoon
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Captain Wilson is going to sail the vessel S.S. Self                            to freedom
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           has no passport and so cannot board
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the passport office resembles the British Prime Minister David Lloyd             
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Defence of India Act 1915
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an emergency criminal law enacted by the Governor-General of India in 1915 with the intention of curtailing the nationalist and                            activities during and in the aftermath of the First World War
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the arrival of the language of self-determination                    India
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Ghandi (1869-1948)
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not just for home rule within the British Empire as              had, but a spiritual succession
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Indians to be free had to be spiritually free from the British
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escalated to patterns of direct action
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taxes upon the local people to repair the war damages
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1919                  Massacre, Punjab
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Colonel Reginald          order rifles to be fired into a crowd of Indians peacefully protesting
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left 300 dead and 1000 injured
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Dyer later defended actions saying he was putting down a revolutionary army
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but most victims were                   
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created a symbol of British                     
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1930 Gandhi's Salt March
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long walk, thousands joined him
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led to his arrest
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led to mass unrest and uprising
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became a model for civil                          world wide
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back in London there was a consensus growing that while speaking of principles of self-determination in Europe, it was impossible to deny them in India
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we begin to see the slow withdrawal and                          of domestic support for British rule in India
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the trouble was that Britain was so dependent on the Indian colony to fund British reconstruction after the war
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