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Write in your own words what you understand by the following sentence on page 44−45:

They also began fighting for greater equality and wanted to change the idea of law from a set of rules that they were forced to obey, to law as including ideas of justice.

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  • This line refers to the protests of Indian nationalists against the violation of the rule of law by British authorities.
  • Indians were discriminated in their own country by the British colonists and the Sedition Act of 1870 was the most prolific example of the breach of the rule of law.
  • The Indian freedom fighters protested against this unjust Act and demanded for more just set of rules based on ideals of equality.

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