British rule in India

• Indian jawans stopped the German advance at Ypres in 1914
• Hundreds were killed in a gallant but futile engagement at Neuve Chappelle
• More than 1000 Indian soldiers died at Gallipoli
• Nearly 700,000 Indian sepoys fought in Mesopotamia against the Ottoman Empire
• Large supplies of food, cash and ammunition were collected by British taxation of Indians
• In return - Britain promised to self governing to India after the war
• Rowlatt Acts of 1919 increased police powers by allowing imprisonment without trial
• The Montagu Chelmsford reforms gave some local councils a degree of self government
• Gandhi led a mass campaign against these acts by British government
• 1920s-1930s = British attitides towards India began to shift- result of Gandhi's protests and other nationalist leaders. India stopped being as important to Britain's economy#
• Britain gave self rule to Irish Free State in 1921 and made it harder to deny self rule in India