the Bardoli Satyagraha‚ Patel came to be called the Sardar. Sardar Patel was a famous lawyer but gave up his practice in order to fight for the freedom of the country. After independence he became the deputy PM of India and played an important role the integration of India by merging numerous princely states with the Indian Union. Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one of the firebrand freedom fighters of India. He gave the slogan- "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it". To serve
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chosen to honour the declaration of independence of 1930. It is one of the three national holidays in India. While the main parade takes place in the national capital‚ New Delhi‚ at the Rajpath before the President of India (currently Pranab Mukherjee)‚ the anniversary is also celebrated with varying degrees of formality in state capitals and other centres. India achieved independence from British rule on 15 August 1947 following the Indian independence movement noted for largely peaceful nonviolent
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death: Delhi‚ India Movement: Indian independence movement Major organizations: Indian National Congress Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was a Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement. He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity‚ opposing the partition of India on communal lines. Following India’s independence‚ he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is
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Independence Day— Independence Day‚ observed annually on 15 August‚ is a national holiday in India commemorating the nation’s independence from British rule on 15 August 1947. India attained freedom following an independence movement noted for largely nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by theIndian National Congress (INC). Independence coincided with the partition of India‚ in which the British Indian Empire was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan;
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Mohandas Gandhi was a nationalist Indian leader that waged a campaign of nonviolence against the colonial British government that took over India in order to help achieve its’ independence. Mohandas Gandhi was among the greatest political and social reformers of recent times‚ he is best remembered for his later campaigns to overthrow British rule in India‚ which led to India’s independence in 1947. He was born in the second day of October in 1869 Gandhi placed himself at the heart of the world-encircling
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March 1930‚ and was an important part of theIndian independence movement. It was a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly incolonial India‚ and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement. This was the most significant organised challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement of 1920–22‚ and directly followed the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress on 26 January 1930. Mohandas Karamchand
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to retrieve its independence from the British‚ someone had to act in a father-like way to the nation‚ and that man was Gandhi. The gradual takeover by the British was not unnoticed by Mahatmas Gandhi. The Indian economy was suffering‚ and as Dr. Nanda Kishor argues‚ Gandhi was strongly motivated to free India from the unhealthy economy‚ and did so in a father-like manner. The BBC agree with argument‚ quoting: “…to be truly equal (with the British) the Indians would need independence from British rule
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Mohandas K. Gandhi - His Greatest Success “Mahatma Gandhiji is revered in India as the Father of the Nation” (Singh‚ Para: 1‚ 2004). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was the leader of the Indian Nationalist movement against British rule. Gandhi was the father of nonviolent resistance and India’s greatest political leader and social reformer. His dream was that of a free India‚ where there was unity regardless of religious believes or political views. Gandhi accomplished his goal of a free
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state-sponsored terrorism. Summary of Evidence: The freedom movements started when the Englishman Allan Hume helped a group of Indians start the Indian National Congress in 1885‚ which didn’t compete with British power. In the early 1900s‚ Bal Gangadhar Tilak brought a new faction within it‚ whose aim was independence. The Indian National Congress also had socialist impacts. In 1906‚ a big split occurred and the few Muslim that’s were in the Indian National Congress left‚ and a group called the Muslim
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fairer and more effective form of governance and administration within in India‚ with the hope of pleasing the Indian people. The reforms were a result of change concerning both Britain and India. There was now a new liberal British government‚ who felt that there was a need for change and felt that they should carry out what was promised in the 1858 royal proclamation and offer more independence to India in regards to government. Significant change had also occurred in India‚ concerning the partition
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