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 League was formed. There are three main reasons
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history of India has made such a powerful 74 impact on the minds of the Indian people as the Rani of Jhansi‚ Lakshmi Bai. She was the second wife of the ruler of Jhansi Raja Gangadhar Rao who protested against the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’. She refused to surrender Jhansi and fought bravely attired as a male during the Revolt of 1857 and died in the battle field fighting the British forces. Her courage inspired many Indians to rise against the alien rule. Another woman whom we remember in this context
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During the 1916 Congress session at Lucknow two major events occurred. The divided Congress became united. An understanding for joint action against the British was reached between the Congress and the Muslim League and it was called the Lucknow Pact. The signing of the Lucknow Pact by the Congress and the Muslim League in 1916 marked an important step in the Hindu-Muslim unity. The Home Rule Movement (1916) Two Home Rule Leagues were established‚ one by B.G. Tilak at Poona in April 1916 and
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The third and final phase of the Nationalist Movement [1917-1947] is known as the Gandhian era. During this period Mahatma Gandhi became the undisputed leader of the National Movement. His principles of nonviolence and Satyagraha were employed against the British Government. Gandhi made the nationalist movement a mass movement. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at Porbandar in Gujarat on 2 October 1869. He studied law in England. He returned to India in 1891. In April 1893 he went to South Africa
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Mohandas Gandhi’s call for immediate independence. The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called "an orderly British withdrawal" from India. The call for determined‚ but passive resistance appears in his call to Do or Die‚ issued on 8 August at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai on year 1942. The British were prepared to act. Almost the entire [INC] leadership‚ and not just at the national level‚ was imprisoned without trial within hours after Gandhi’s speech—at
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as a legal representative for the Muslim Indian Traders based in the city of Pretoria.[25] He spent 21 years in South Africa‚ where he developed his political views‚ ethics and political leadership skills. Purported photograph of Gandhi in South Africa (1895) Indians in South Africa were led by wealthy Muslims‚ who employed Gandhi as a lawyer‚ and by impoverished Hindu indentured laborers with very limited rights. Gandhi considered them all to be Indians‚ taking a lifetime view that "Indianness"
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Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India. His father‚ Motilal Nehru (1861–1931)‚ a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community‚[5] served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle. His mother‚ Swaruprani Thussu (1868–1938)‚ who came from a well–known Kashmiri Brahmin family settled in Lahore‚[6] was Motilal’s second wife‚ the first having died in child birth. Jawaharlal was the eldest
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to pur- sue law studies and was included in the bar in 1896. He initiated his political career in 1906 by becoming a member of the All India National Congress and devel- oped relations with Muslim Leaders. In 1913 he joined the All India Muslim League. Jinnah tried to strengthen the Hindu Muslim unity as annual sessions of both the Indian National Congress and All India Muslim League were held to- gether in Lucknow in 1916. Jinnah’s efforts to promote Hindu Muslim unity reached a climax after the
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she met Shree Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Gandhi and was influenced by them. Sarojini worked whole-heartedly for India ’s freedom movement and rights of women. In 1925‚ Sarojini became the first Indian woman president of the National Congress. . When India became free in 1947‚ she become the first Indian woman governor of United Province. The Nightingale passed away on March 2‚ 1949. However the legacy that she has left behind will continue to inspire future generations of India. Her birthday
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one of the gems of the 20th century‚ a child prodigy‚ Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu was one of the framers of the Indian Constitution. Sarojini came through as a fragile woman‚ but an indomitable spirit‚ forward-minded and always open to new ideas‚ self-disciplined‚ optimistic‚ forward-looking and utterly free from prejudice of caste‚ creed‚ race‚ gender‚ nationality and religion‚ determined to fight for the cause of Indian women but above all for Hindu-Muslim unity. She was famous
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