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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was no stranger to anti-colonial activism when he returned to India during the First World War. After the great sacrifices of Britain's colony, the demand for autonomy was growing in India. And Ghandi would be front and center of this new movement with his idea of non-cooperation and peaceful resistance.
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Chandra, Bipan; Mukherjee, Mridula; Mukherjee, Aditya; Mahajan, Sucheta; Panikkar, K. N:” India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857-1947”, (Delhi : Penguin Books, 2003)
Darwin, John. “Britain, Egypt and the Middle East: Imperial policy in the aftermath of war 1918-1922” (London : Macmillan Press Ltd, 1981)
Judd, Denis. “The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947” (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010)
Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. “‘Gandhi’s Swaraj’ Economic and Political Weekly” Vol. 44, No. 50 (Dec, 2009)
Rajan, Vithal. “‘The Natives Continue to be Restless’ Economic and Political Weekly”
Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jan, 2009)
Sayer, Derek. “British Reaction to the Amritsar Massacre 1919-1920” Past & Present,
No. 131 (May, 1991)
Tharoor, Shashi. “Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India” (London : Penguin Books, 2017)
Tinker, Hugh. “‘India in the First World War and after’ Journal of Contemporary History”
Vol. 3, No. 4, 1918-19: From War to Peace” (Oct., 1968)
Wagner, Kim A. “‘Calculated to Strike Terror’: The Amritsar Massacre and the Spectacle of Colonial Violence”, Past & Present, Volume 233, Issue 1, November 2016
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was no stranger to anti-colonial activism when he returned to India during the First World War. After the great sacrifices of Britain's colony, the demand for autonomy was growing in India. And Ghandi would be front and center of this new movement with his idea of non-cooperation and peaceful resistance.
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realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show.
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» SOURCES
Chandra, Bipan; Mukherjee, Mridula; Mukherjee, Aditya; Mahajan, Sucheta; Panikkar, K. N:” India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857-1947”, (Delhi : Penguin Books, 2003)
Darwin, John. “Britain, Egypt and the Middle East: Imperial policy in the aftermath of war 1918-1922” (London : Macmillan Press Ltd, 1981)
Judd, Denis. “The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947” (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010)
Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. “‘Gandhi’s Swaraj’ Economic and Political Weekly” Vol. 44, No. 50 (Dec, 2009)
Rajan, Vithal. “‘The Natives Continue to be Restless’ Economic and Political Weekly”
Vol. 44, No. 2 (Jan, 2009)
Sayer, Derek. “British Reaction to the Amritsar Massacre 1919-1920” Past & Present,
No. 131 (May, 1991)
Tharoor, Shashi. “Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India” (London : Penguin Books, 2017)
Tinker, Hugh. “‘India in the First World War and after’ Journal of Contemporary History”
Vol. 3, No. 4, 1918-19: From War to Peace” (Oct., 1968)
Wagner, Kim A. “‘Calculated to Strike Terror’: The Amritsar Massacre and the Spectacle of Colonial Violence”, Past & Present, Volume 233, Issue 1, November 2016
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16 DAYS IN BERLIN: realtimehistory.net/pages/16-days-in-berlin
»CREDITS
Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Marc Newton, Jesse Alexander
Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig
Director of Photography: Toni Steller
Sound: Toni Steller
Editing: Toni Steller
Motion Design: Philipp Appelt
Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: above-zero.com
Maps: Daniel Kogosov (patreon.com/Zalezsky)
Research by: Marc Newton
Fact checking: Florian Wittig
Channel Design: Yves Thimian
Contains licensed material by getty images
All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2021
