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3 days ago · The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal.
3 days ago · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Born: October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India. Died: January 30, 1948, Delhi (aged 78) Political Affiliation: Indian National Congress. Notable Family Members: spouse Kasturba Gandhi. Role In: British raj. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. Poona Pact. Salt March. noncooperation movement. Top Questions.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
1 day ago · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [c] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
21 hours ago · Sardar Patel is a widely celebrated Indian freedom fighter in India, as well as a respected leader. In his eulogy, delivered the day after Patel's death, Girija Shankar Bajpai , the Secretary-General of the Ministry of External Affairs, paid tribute to "a great patriot, a great administrator and a great man.
5 days ago · Freedom fighters of India have struggled and sacrificed their lives to free India from British rule. A big group of revolutionaries and activists from various racial and ethnic backgrounds came together to abolish the control of foreign imperialists and their Colonialism in India.
3 days ago · Mahatma Gandhi - Nonviolence, Resistance, India: Gandhi was not the man to nurse a grudge. On the outbreak of the South African (Boer) War in 1899, he argued that the Indians, who claimed the full rights of citizenship in the British crown colony of Natal, were in duty bound to defend it.
4 days ago · India's Struggle for Freedom: Check the timeline of Indian Independence movement from 1857 to 1947 and key events in the freedom struggle leading to India's Independence from 1498 To 1950...
