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**World Regions: India**
Instructor: Daniel Ondich dan.ondich@sobrietyhigh.org

**What's Due for Lesson 17**
Video Version** |||| **On Nicenet:**
 * = **What's Due
 * none ||= **In you wiki:**
 * Create “Nonviolence, Partition and Independence” wiki page || **Vocabulary:**
 * Mahatama Gandhi
 * Satyagraha
 * Mahavira
 * Democracy
 * Partition || **Other:**
 * none ||

**Step 1**:
 - NOTE - YOU WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TIME IN LESSON 18 TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT

Add the day's vocab into your wiki. (see "What's Due" at the top of the page) //**write __only__ the definition for term in your own words**//.


 * Lesson 17**
 * Mahatama Gandhi
 * Satyagraha
 * Mahavira
 * Democracy
 * Partition

**Step 2**:
Log into your course wiki and create a new page titled "Religion". Copy and paste the following discussion questions into your new page:


 * Answer each of the following questions using 1-2 complete sentences.**


 * 1) How did Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism influence India’s tradition of non-violence?
 * 2) How does Jainism complement Hinduism?
 * 3) What actions must Jains undertake to achieve Kaivalya?
 * 4) While non-violent, how is the implementation of satyagraha not a passive movement?
 * 5) In what ways did Martin Luther King, Jr. employ the satyagraha method utilized by Gandhi?
 * 6) In wanting to create a secular constitution, what deep challenges did Jawaharlal Nehru and the Indian National Congress face?
 * 7) While the early Indian National Congress included members from various ethnic and religion groups, why was the organization not representative of India’s population at independence in 1947?
 * 8) How did Indian National Congress leaders use World War II to help India gain her independence?
 * 9) Why did Mohammad Ali Jinnah fight for an independent Pakistan? Based upon the violent history between India and Pakistan since independence, were Jinnah's fears justified or did the partition help create the tensions?

**Step 3**:
Return to __The Story of India__ and read all the information on the "[|Nonviolence]" page and the "[|Partition and Independence]" page then answer the questions in your course wiki.


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