Partition Day: 8/14/1947; creates Pakistan as a Muslim country and brings to a close British colonial rule

Muslim League: an organization formed in 1906 and led by Mohamed Ali Jinnah created to protect the interests of India's Muslims, in particular to prevent Muslims from being dominated by the Hindu majority upon independence from Britain, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations

Rowlatt Act: law that imposed severe punishments upon those involved in political activity that opposed the government

Salt March: 24-day, 240-mile walk from the Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, a coastal city on the Arabian Sea, to protest the British tax on salt

ashram: self-sufficient communities; examples include Phoenix Settlement and Tolstoy Farm in South Africa and Sabarmati Ashram and Sevagram Ashram in India

Asiatic Registration Bill: proposed law that would require all Indians and Chinese in the Transvaal to be fingerprinted and carry identification papers; failure to do so could result in fines, imprisonment, and deportation

Indian National Congress: Indian political party that played a major role in the Indian independence movement

Civil Disobedience: concept of Gandhi’s revolution in which laws viewed as unfair would not be followed; essay by Henry David Thoreau

charkha: spinning wheel used by Indians to make their own cloth so as not to have to buy from the British

Amritsar Massacre: tragedy in which several hundred Indians gathered at Jallianwala Bagh were injured or killed after British Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered troops to open fire on the unarmed peasants