SE Asia History Vocabulary

A law passed by the British Parliament that ended British rule in India and established the independent countries of India and Pakistan.

• Rowlatt Acts

• Indian Act of Independence in 1947

• Caste System

• Salt March

The act of taking control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and sending people from your own country to live there. Part of the goal is to gain wealth.

• Boycott

• Nationalism

• Partition

• Colonization

A refusal to buy or use goods and services as a form of protest.

• Boycott

• Independence

• Non-violent protest

• Partition

Laws that allowed British government to arrest protesters without trial for as long as two years.

• Caste System

• British Raj

• Rowlatt Acts

• Salt March

Free from outside control; not depending on another's authority.

• Colonization

• Independence

• Partition

• Nationalism

An English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India.

• British East India Company

• British Raj

• Caste System

• Rowlatt Acts

An attempt to draw attention to and change policies or practices without using force or causing harm.

• Salt March

• Civil Disobedience

• Boycott

• Non-violent protest

Loyalty and devotion to a country.

• Mohandas/Mahatma Gandhi

• Partition

• Nationalism

• Colonization

A belief that social class is hereditary and does not change throughout a person's life.

• Civil Disobedience

• Rowlatt Acts

• Caste System

• British Raj

Political leader and spiritual leader of the Indian drive for independence from Great Britain after WWI; he stressed non violent but aggressive protesting and civil disobedience.

• Indian National Congress

• British East India Company

• British Raj

• Mohandas/Mahatma Gandhi