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Indian independence movementFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The term Indianindependence movementencompasses a wide range ofareas like politicalorganizations, philosophies andmovements which had thecommon aim to ending thecompany rule (East IndiaCompany), and then Britishimperial authority, in parts ofSouth Asia. The independencemovement saw variousnational and regionalcampaigns, agitations andefforts, some nonviolent andothers not so.

During the first quarter of the19th century, Rammohan Royintroduced modern educationinto India. SwamiVivekananda was the chiefarchitect who profoundlyprojected the rich culture ofIndia to the west at the end of19th century. Many of thecountry's political leaders ofthe 19th and 20th century,including Mohandas K.Gandhi and Netaji SubhasChandra Bose, wereinfluenced by the teachings ofSwami Vivekananda.According to Netaji SubhasChandra Bose, who was a major proponent of armed struggle for Indian independence, Swami Vivekananda was"the maker of modern India"; for Mohandas Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda's influence increased his "love for hiscountry a thousandfold." His writings inspired a whole generation of freedom fighters. Many years after SwamiVivekananda's death, Rabindranath Tagore told French Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland, "If you want to knowIndia, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative."

The first organised militant movements were in Bengal, but they later took to the political stage in the form of amainstream movement in the then newly formed Indian National Congress (INC), with prominent moderate leadersseeking only their basic right to appear for Indian Civil Service examinations, as well as more rights, economic in



nature, for the people of the soil. The early part of the 20th century saw a more radical approach towards politicalindependence proposed by leaders such as the Lal, Bal, Pal, Aurobindo Ghosh and V. O. Chidambaram Pillai.

The last stages of the freedom struggle from the 1920s onwards saw Congress adopt Mohandas KaramchandGandhi's policy of nonviolence and civil resistance, Muhammad Ali Jinnah's constitutional struggle for the rights ofminorities in India, and several other campaigns. Legendary figures such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose andBhagat Singh came to adopt political method of revolution to the freedom movement, while others like SwamiSahajanand Saraswati wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toiling masses. Poetssuch as Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam used literature, poetry and speech as a tool for politicalawareness. The period of the Second World War saw the peak of the campaigns by the Quit India movement (ledby "Mahatma" Gandhi) and the Indian National Army (INA) movement (led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose) andothers, eventually resulting in the withdrawal of the British.

The work of these various movements led ultimately to the Indian Independence Act 1947, which created theindependent dominions of India and Pakistan. India remained a Dominion of the Crown until 26 January 1950,when the Constitution of India came into force, establishing the Republic of India; Pakistan was a dominion until1956.

The Indian independence movement was a mass-based movement that encompassed various sections of society. It

also underwent a process of constant ideological evolution.[1] Although the basic ideology of the movement wasanti-colonial, it was supported by a vision of independent capitalist economic development coupled with a secular,

democratic, republican, and civil-libertarian political structure.[2] After the 1930s, the movement took on a strongsocialist orientation, due to the increasing influence of left-wing elements in the INC as well as the rise and growth

of the Communist Party of India.[1]. The All-India Muslim League was formed in 1906 to protect the rights ofMuslims in the Indian Sub-continent against the INC and to present a Muslim voice to the British government.

Contents

1 Background (17571883)

1.1 Early British colonialism in India1.2 Vellore sepoy mutiny1.3 The rebellion of 1857 and its consequences

1.4 Rise of organised movements2 Rise of Indian nationalism (18851905)

3 Partition of Bengal, 19054 All India Muslim League

5 First World War5.1 Nationalist response to war

5.2 British reforms6 Gandhi arrives in India

7 The non-cooperation movements7.1 The first non-cooperation movement

8 Purna Swaraj

9 Karachi Congress session-193110 Salt March and civil disobedience



Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive with

Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey

11 Elections and the Lahore resolution

12 Revolutionary activities13 The final process of Indian independence movement

13.1 Quit India Movement13.2 Indian National Army

13.3 Christmas Island Mutiny & Royal Indian Navy mutiny14 Independence and partition of India

15 See also16 References

17 Further reading18 External links

Background (17571883)

Early British colonialism in India

Main articles: European colonies in India, East India Company, Company rule in India, and British Raj

European traders first reached Indian shores with the arrival of thePortuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498 AD at the port of Calicut,in search of the lucrative spice trade. Just over a century later, the Dutchand English established trading outposts on the subcontinent, with the first

English trading post set up at Surat in 1612.[3] Over the course of the

17th and early 18th centuries, the British[4] defeated the Portuguese andDutch militarily, but remained in conflict with the French, who had bythen sought to establish themselves in the subcontinent. The decline of theMughal empire in the first half of the 18th century provided the British

with the opportunity to seize a firm foothold in Indian politics.[5] After theBattle of Plassey in 1757, during which the East India Company's Bengalarmy under Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Bengal,the Company established itself as a major player in Indian affairs, andsoon afterwards gained administrative rights over the regions of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha, following the Battle of

Buxar in 1764.[6] After the defeat of Tipu Sultan, most of South India came either under the Company's direct rule,or under its indirect political control as part a princely state in a subsidiary alliance. The Company subsequentlygained control of regions ruled by the Maratha Empire, after defeating them in a series of wars. Punjab wasannexed in 1849, after the defeat of the Sikh armies in the First (18451846) and Second (184849) Anglo-SikhWars.

In 1835 English was made the medium of instruction in India's schools. Western-educated Hindu elites sought to ridHinduism of controversial social practices, including the varna caste system, child marriage, and sati. Literary anddebating societies established in Calcutta (Kolkata) and Bombay (Mumbai) became forums for open politicaldiscourse.



After the defeat of Tipu Sultan, most

of South India was now either under

the company's direct rule, or under its

indirect political control

Even while these modernising trends influenced Indian society, many Indians increasingly despised British rule. Withthe British now dominating most of the subcontinent, they grew increasingly abusive of local customs by, for

example, staging parties in mosques, dancing to the music of regimentalbands on the terrace of the Taj Mahal, using whips to force their waythrough crowded bazaars (as recounted by General Henry Blake), and

mistreating Indians (including the sepoys).[citation needed] In the yearsafter the annexation of Punjab in 1849, several mutinies broke out amongthe sepoys; these were put down by force.

Vellore sepoy mutiny

The garrison of the Vellore Fort in July 1806 comprised four companiesof British infantry from H.M. 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Footand three battalions of Madras infantry.

Two hours after midnight, on 10 July, the sepoys in the fort shot downthe European sentries and killed fourteen of their own officers and 115men of the 69th Regiment, most of the latter as they slept in their

barracks. Among those killed was Colonel St. John Fancourt, the commander of the fort. The rebels seized controlby dawn, and raised the flag of the Mysore Sultanate over the fort. Tipu's second son Fateh Hyder was declaredKing.

However a British officer escaped and alerted the garrison in Arcot. Nine hours after the outbreak of the mutiny, arelief force comprising the British 19th Light Dragoons, galloper guns and a squadron of Madras cavalry, rode fromArcot to Vellore, covering sixteen miles in about two hours. It was led by Sir Rollo Gillespie one of the mostcapable and energetic officers in India at that time who reportedly left Arcot within a quarter of an hour of thealarm being raised. Gillespie dashed ahead of the main force with a single troop of about twenty men.

Arriving at Vellore Gillespie found the surviving Europeans, about sixty men of the 69th, commanded by NCOs andtwo assistant surgeons, still holding part of the ramparts but out of ammunition. Unable to gain entry through thedefended gate, Gillespie climbed the wall with the aid of a rope and a sergeant's sash which was lowered to him;and to gain time led the 69th in a bayonet-charge along the ramparts. When the rest of the 19th arrived, Gillespiehad them blow the gates with their galloper guns, and made a second charge with the 69th to clear a space insidethe gate to permit the cavalry to deploy. The 19th and the Madras Cavalry then charged and slaughtered any sepoywho stood in their way. About 100 sepoys who had sought refuge in the palace were brought out, and byGillespie's order, placed against a wall and shot dead. John Blakiston, the engineer who had blown in the gates,recalled: "Even this appalling sight I could look upon, I may almost say, with composure. It was an act of summaryjustice, and in every respect a most proper one; yet, at this distance of time, I find it a difficult matter to approve thedeed, or to account for the feeling under which I then viewed it.

The harsh retribution meted out to the sepoys snuffed out the unrest at a stroke and provided the history of theBritish in India with one of its true epics; for as Gillespie admitted, with a delay of even five minutes, all would havebeen lost. In all nearly 350 of the rebels were killed, and another 350 wounded before the fighting had stopped.

The rebellion of 1857 and its consequences

Main article: Indian rebellion of 1857



States during the rebellion

The Indian rebellion of 1857 was a large-scale rebellion in northern and central India against the British East IndiaCompany's rule. It was suppressed and the British government took control of the company.

The conditions of service in the company's army and cantonmentsincreasingly came into conflict with the religious beliefs and prejudices of

the sepoys.[7] The predominance of members from the upper castes inthe army, perceived loss of caste due to overseas travel, and rumours ofsecret designs of the government to convert them to Christianity led to

deep discontentment among the sepoys.[8] The sepoys were alsodisillusioned by their low salaries and the racial discrimination practised

by British officers in matters of promotion and privileges.[8] Theindifference of the British towards leading native Indian rulers such as theMughals and ex-Peshwas and the annexation of Oudh were politicalfactors triggering dissent amongst Indians. The Marquess of Dalhousie'spolicy of annexation, the doctrine of lapse (or escheat) applied by theBritish, and the projected removal of the descendants of the GreatMughal from their ancestral palace at Red Fort to the Qutb (near Delhi)also angered some people.

The final spark was provided by the rumoured use of tallow (from cows) and lard (pig fat) in the newly introducedPattern 1853 Enfield rifle cartridges. Soldiers had to bite the cartridges with their teeth before loading them intotheir rifles, and the reported presence of cow and pig fat was religiously offensive to both Hindu and Muslim

soldiers.[9]

Mangal Pandey, a 29-year old sepoy, was believed to be responsible for inspiring the Indian sepoys to rise againstthe British. In the first week of May 1857, he killed a higher officer in his regiment at Barrackpore for theintroduction of the offensive rule. He was captured and was sentenced to death when the British took back control

over the regiment.[10][citation needed] On 10 May 1857, the sepoys at Meerut broke rank and turned on theircommanding officers, killing some of them. They then reached Delhi on 11 May, set the company's toll house afire,and marched into the Red Fort, where they asked the Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, to become their leaderand reclaim his throne. The emperor was reluctant at first, but eventually agreed and was proclaimed Shehenshah-

e-Hindustan by the rebels.[11] The rebels also murdered much of the European, Eurasian, and Christian population

of the city.[12]

Revolts broke out in other parts of Oudh and the North-Western Provinces as well, where civil rebellion followed

the mutinies, leading to popular uprisings.[13] The British were initially caught off-guard and were thus slow to react,but eventually responded with force. The lack of effective organisation among the rebels, coupled with the military

superiority of the British, brought a rapid end to the rebellion.[14] The British fought the main army of the rebels near

Delhi, and after prolonged fighting and a siege, defeated them and retook the city on 20 September 1857.[15]

Subsequently, revolts in other centres were also crushed. The last significant battle was fought in Gwalior on 17June 1858, during which Rani Lakshmibai was killed. Sporadic fighting and guerrilla warfare, led by Tatya Tope,continued until spring 1859, but most of the rebels were eventually subdued.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major turning point in the history of modern India. While affirming the military

and political power of the British,[16] it led to significant change in how India was to be controlled by them. Underthe Government of India Act 1858, the Company was deprived of its involvement in ruling India, with its territory

being transferred to the direct authority of the British government.[17] At the apex of the new system was a Cabinet



Image of the delegates to the first meeting of the

Indian National Congress in Bombay, 1885

minister, the Secretary of State for India, who was to be formally advised by a statutory council;[18] the Governor-General of India (Viceroy) was made responsible to him, while he in turn was responsible to the British Parliamentfor British rule. In a royal proclamation made to the people of India, Queen Victoria promised equal opportunity of

public service under British law, and also pledged to respect the rights of the native princes.[19] The British stoppedthe policy of seizing land from the princes, decreed religious tolerance and began to admit Indians into the civilservice (albeit mainly as subordinates). However, they also increased the number of British soldiers in relation tonative Indian ones, and only allowed British soldiers to handle artillery. Bahadur Shah was exiled to Rangoon,Burma, where he died in 1862.

In 1876 Queen Victoria took the additional title of Empress of India.

Rise of organised movements

Main articles: Nationalist Movements in India, IndianNational Congress, Congress Socialist Party, and All

India Kisan Sabha

See also: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, SwamiVivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Subramanya

Bharathy, and Syed Ahmed Khan/Bharathidhasan

{They were approaching the awareness to the people aboutthe independence through poems, dramas and lectures} Thedecades following the Rebellion were a period of growingpolitical awareness, manifestation of Indian public opinion andemergence of Indian leadership at both national andprovincial levels. Dadabhai Naoroji formed the East IndiaAssociation in 1867 and Surendranath Banerjee founded theIndian National Association in 1876.

Inspired by a suggestion made by A.O. Hume, a retired British civil servant, seventy-three Indian delegates met inBombay in 1885 and founded the Indian National Congress. They were mostly members of the upwardly mobileand successful western-educated provincial elites, engaged in professions such as law, teaching and journalism. Atits inception, the Congress had no well-defined ideology and commanded few of the resources essential to apolitical organisation. Instead, it functioned more as a debating society that met annually to express its loyalty to theBritish Raj and passed numerous resolutions on less controversial issues such as civil rights or opportunities ingovernment (especially in the civil service). These resolutions were submitted to the Viceroy's government andoccasionally to the British Parliament, but the Congress's early gains were srit. Despite its claim to represent allIndia, the Congress voiced the interests of urban elites; the number of participants from other social and economicbackgrounds remained negligible.

The influence of socio-religious groups such as Arya Samaj (started by Swami Dayanand Saraswati) and BrahmoSamaj (founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and others) became evident in pioneering reforms of Indian society. Thework of men like Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Sri Aurobindo, Subramanya Bharathy, BankimChandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rabindranath Tagore and Dadabhai Naoroji, as well as women suchas the ScotsIrish Sister Nivedita, spread the passion for rejuvenation and freedom. The rediscovery of India'sindigenous history by several European and Indian scholars also fed into the rise of nationalism among Indians.



Rise of Indian nationalism (18851905)

Main article: Nationalist Movements in India

By 1900, although the Congress had emerged as an all-India political organisation, its achievement was underminedby its singular failure to attract Muslims, who felt that their representation in government service was inadequate.Attacks by Hindu reformers against religious conversion, cow slaughter, and the preservation of Urdu in Arabicscript deepened their concerns of minority status and denial of rights if the Congress alone were to represent thepeople of India. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan launched a movement for Muslim regeneration that culminated in thefounding in 1875 of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh (renamed Aligarh MuslimUniversity in 1920). Its objective was to educate wealthy students by emphasising the compatibility of Islam withmodern western knowledge. The diversity among India's Muslims, however, made it impossible to bring aboutuniform cultural and intellectual regeneration.

The nationalistic sentiments among Congress members led to the movement to be represented in the bodies ofgovernment, to have a say in the legislation and administration of India. Congressmen saw themselves as loyalists,but wanted an active role in governing their own country, albeit as part of the Empire. This trend was personified byDadabhai Naoroji, who went as far as contesting, successfully, an election to the British House of Commons,becoming its first Indian member.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was the first Indian nationalist to embrace Swaraj as the destiny of the nation[citation needed].Tilak deeply opposed the then British education system that ignored and defamed India's culture, history andvalues. He resented the denial of freedom of expression for nationalists, and the lack of any voice or role forordinary Indians in the affairs of their nation. For these reasons, he considered Swaraj as the natural and onlysolution. His popular sentence "Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it" became the source of inspiration forIndians.

In 1907, the Congress was split into two factions. The radicals led by Tilak advocated civil agitation and directrevolution to overthrow the British Empire and the abandonment of all things British. The moderates led by leaderslike Dadabhai Naoroji and Gopal Krishna Gokhale on the other hand wanted reform within the framework ofBritish rule. Tilak was backed by rising public leaders like Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai, who held thesame point of view. Under them, India's three great states Maharashtra, Bengal and Punjab shaped the demandof the people and India's nationalism. Gokhale criticised Tilak for encouraging acts of violence and disorder. But theCongress of 1906 did not have public membership, and thus Tilak and his supporters were forced to leave theparty.

But with Tilak's arrest, all hopes for an Indian offensive were stalled. The Congress lost credit with the people. AMuslim deputation met with the Viceroy, Minto (190510), seeking concessions from the impending constitutionalreforms, including special considerations in government service and electorates. The British recognised some of theMuslim League's petitions by increasing the number of elective offices reserved for Muslims in the Indian CouncilsAct 1909. The Muslim League insisted on its separateness from the Hindu-dominated Congress, as the voice of a"nation within a nation."

Partition of Bengal, 1905

Main article: Partition of Bengal (1905)



In July 1905, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy and Governor-General (18991905), ordered the partition of the province

of Bengal supposedly for improvements in administrative efficiency in the huge and populous region.[20] It also hadjustifications due to increasing conflicts between Muslims and dominant Hindu regimes in Bengal. However theIndians viewed the partition as an attempt by the British to disrupt the growing national movement in Bengal anddivide the Hindus and Muslims of the region. The Bengali Hindu intelligentsia exerted considerable influence on localand national politics. The partition outraged Bengalis. Not only had the government failed to consult Indian publicopinion, but the action appeared to reflect the British resolve to divide and rule. Widespread agitation ensued in thestreets and in the press, and the Congress advocated boycotting British products under the banner of swadeshi.Hindus showed unity by tying Rakhi on each other's wrists and observing Arandhan (not cooking any food).During this time Bengali Hindu nationalists begin writing virulent newspaper articles and were charged with sedition.Brahmabhandav Upadhyay, a Hindu newspaper editor who helped Tagore establish his school at Shantiniketan,was imprisoned and the first martyr to die in British custody in the 20th century struggle for independence.

All India Muslim League

The All India Muslim League was founded by the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka (nowBangladesh), in 1906, in the context of the circumstances that were generated over the partition of Bengal in 1905.Being a political party to secure the interests of the Muslim diaspora in British India, the Muslim League played adecisive role during the 1940s in the Indian independence movement and developed into the driving force behindthe creation of Pakistan in the Indian subcontinent.But when Muslim league passed Pakistan resolution based onTwo Nation theory of Jinnah, Nationalist leaders like Maulana Azad and others stood against it. All-India JamhurMuslm League was formed parellal to Muslim League with Raja of Mahmoodabad (a close associate of Jinnah) as

its president and Dr.Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi its general secretary.[21]

In 1906, Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the Indian National Congress, which was the largest Indian politicalorganization. Like most of the Congress at the time, Jinnah did not favour outright independence, considering Britishinfluences on education, law, culture and industry as beneficial to India. Jinnah became a member on the sixty-member Imperial Legislative Council. The council had no real power or authority, and included a large number ofun-elected pro-Raj loyalists and Europeans. Nevertheless, Jinnah was instrumental in the passing of the ChildMarriages Restraint Act, the legitimization of the Muslim waqf (religious endowments) and was appointed to the

Sandhurst committee, which helped establish the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun.[22] During World War I,Jinnah joined other Indian moderates in supporting the British war effort, hoping that Indians would be rewardedwith political freedoms.

First World War

See also: Defence of India Act 1915

World War I began with an unprecedented outpouring of love and goodwill towards the United Kingdom fromwithin the mainstream political leadership, contrary to initial British fears of an Indian revolt. India contributedmassively to the British war effort by providing men and resources. About 1.3 million Indian soldiers and labourersserved in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, while both the Indian government and the princes sent large suppliesof food, money and ammunition. However, Bengal and Punjab remained hotbeds of anti colonial activities.Nationalism in Bengal, increasingly closely linked with the unrests in Punjab, was significant enough to nearly

paralyse the regional administration.[23][24]



This photograph shows an emaciated

Indian Army soldier who survived the

Siege of Kut

None of the overseas conspiracies had significant impact on Indians inside India, and there were no major mutiniesor violent outbursts. However, they did lead to profound fears of insurrection among British officials, preparing

them to use extreme force to frighten the Indians into submission.[25]

Nationalist response to war

In the aftermath of World War I, high casualty rates, soaring inflation compounded by heavy taxation, a widespreadinfluenza epidemic and the disruption of trade during the war escalated human suffering in India.

The pre-war nationalist movement revived as moderate and extremistgroups within the Congress submerged their differences in order to standas a unified front. They argued their enormous services to the BritishEmpire during the war demanded a reward, and demonstrated the Indiancapacity for self-rule. In 1916, the Congress succeeded in forging theLucknow Pact, a temporary alliance with the Muslim League over theissues of devolution of political power and the future of Islam in theregion.

British reforms

The British themselves adopted a "carrot and stick" approach inrecognition of India's support during the war and in response to renewednationalist demands. In August 1917, Edwin Montagu, the secretary ofstate for India, made the historic announcement in Parliament that theBritish policy for India was "increasing association of Indians in everybranch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization ofresponsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire."The means of achieving the proposed measure were later enshrined in theGovernment of India Act 1919, which introduced the principle of a dualmode of administration, or diarchy, in which both elected Indian legislators and appointed British officials sharedpower. The act also expanded the central and provincial legislatures and widened the franchise considerably.Diarchy set in motion certain real changes at the provincial level: a number of non-controversial or "transferred"portfolios, such as agriculture, local government, health, education, and public works, were handed over to Indians,while more sensitive matters such as finance, taxation, and maintaining law and order were retained by the

provincial British administrators.[26]

Gandhi arrives in India

See also: Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) had been a prominent leader of the Indian nationalistmovement in South Africa, and had been a vocal opponent of basic discrimination and abusive labour treatment aswell as suppressive police control such as the Rowlatt Acts. During these protests, Gandhiji had perfected theconcept of satyagraha, which had been inspired by the philosophy of Baba Ram Singh (famous for leading theKuka Movement in the Punjab in 1872). In January 1914 (well before the First World War began) Gandhiji wassuccessful. The hated legislation against Indians was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by



Gandhiji in 1918, at the time of the

Kheda and Champaran satyagrahas

General Jan Smuts.[27]

Gandhi returned to India, on 9 January 1915 and initially entered the political fray not with calls for a nation-state,but in support of the unified commerce-oriented territory that the Congress Party had been asking for. Gandhibelieved that the industrial development and educational development that the Europeans had brought with themwere required to alleviate many of India's problems. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a veteran Congressman and Indian

leader, became Gandhi's mentor. Gandhi's ideas and strategies of non-violent civil disobedience initially appeared impractical to some Indiansand Congressmen. In Gandhi's own words, "civil disobedience is civilbreach of unmoral statutory enactments." It had to be carried out non-violently by withdrawing cooperation with the corrupt state. Gandhi'sability to inspire millions of common people became clear when he usedsatyagraha during the anti-Rowlatt Act protests in Punjab. Gandhi hadgreat respect for Lokmanya Tilak. His programmes were all inspired byTilak's "Chatusutri" programme.

Gandhi's vision would soon bring millions of regular Indians into themovement, transforming it from an elitist struggle to a national one. Thenationalist cause was expanded to include the interests and industries thatformed the economy of common Indians. For example, in Champaran,Bihar, Gandhi championed the plight of desperately poor sharecroppersand landless farmers who were being forced to pay oppressive taxes andgrow cash crops at the expense of the subsistence crops which formedtheir food supply. The profits from the crops they grew were insufficientto provide for their sustenance.

The positive impact of reform was seriously undermined in 1919 by theRowlatt Act, named after the recommendations made the previous yearto the Imperial Legislative Council by the Rowlatt Commission. The

Rowlatt Act vested the Viceroy's government with extraordinary powers to quell sedition by silencing the press,detaining the political activists without trial, and arresting any individuals suspected of sedition or treason without awarrant. In protest, a nationwide cessation of work (hartal) was called, marking the beginning of widespread,although not nationwide, popular discontent.

The agitation unleashed by the acts led to British attacks on demonstrators, culminating on 13 April 1919, in theJallianwala Bagh massacre (also known as the Amritsar Massacre) in Amritsar, Punjab. The British militarycommander, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, blocked the main, and only entrance-cum-exit, and ordered hissoldiers to fire into an unarmed and unsuspecting crowd of some 15,000 men, women and children. They hadassembled peacefully at Jallianwala Bagh, a walled courtyard, but Dyer had wanted to execute the imposed ban on

all meetings and proposed to teach all Indians a lesson the harsher way.[28] A total of 1,651 rounds were fired,killing 379 people (as according to an official British commission; Indian officials' estimates ranged as high as 1,499

and wounding 1,137 in the massacre.[29] Dyer was forced to retire but was hailed as a hero in Britain,

demonstrating to Indian nationalists that the Empire was beholden to public opinion in Britain, but not in India.[30]

The episode dissolved wartime hopes of home rule and goodwill and opened a rift that could not be bridged short

of complete independence.[31]

The non-cooperation movements



Main articles: Mohandas Gandhi and Non-cooperation movement

The independence movement as late as 1918 was an elitist movement far removed from the masses of India,focusing essentially on a unified commerce-oriented territory and hardly a call for a united nation. Gandhi changedall that and made it a mass movement.

The first non-cooperation movement

At the Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920, Gandhi convinced other leaders of the need to start anon-cooperation movement in support of Khilafat as well as for swaraj (self rule). The first satyagraha movementurged the use of khadi and Indian material as alternatives to those shipped from Britain. It also urged people toboycott British educational institutions and law courts; resign from government employment; refuse to pay taxes;and forsake British titles and honours. Although this came too late to influence the framing of the new Governmentof India Act 1919, the movement enjoyed widespread popular support, and the resulting unparalleled magnitude ofdisorder presented a serious challenge to foreign rule. However, Gandhi called off the movement following theChauri Chaura incident, which saw the death of twenty-two policemen at the hands of an angry mob.

Membership in the party was opened to anyone prepared to pay a token fee, and a hierarchy of committees wasestablished and made responsible for discipline and control over a hitherto amorphous and diffuse movement. Theparty was transformed from an elite organisation to one of mass national appeal and participation.

Gandhi was sentenced in 1922 to six years of prison, but was released after serving two. On his release fromprison, he set up the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, on the banks of river Sabarmati, established the newspaperYoung India, and inaugurated a series of reforms aimed at the socially disadvantaged within Hindu society the

rural poor, and the untouchables.[32][33]

This era saw the emergence of new generation of Indians from within the Congress Party, including C.Rajagopalachari, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhas Chandra Bose and others- who would later oncome to form the prominent voices of the Indian independence movement, whether keeping with Gandhian Values,or, as in the case of Bose's Indian National Army, diverging from it.

The Indian political spectrum was further broadened in the mid-1920s by the emergence of both moderate andmilitant parties, such as the Swaraj Party, Hindu Mahasabha, Communist Party of India and the RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh. Regional political organisations also continued to represent the interests of non-Brahmins inMadras, Mahars in Maharashtra, and Sikhs in Punjab. However, people like Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi,Vanchinathan and Neelakanda Brahmachari played a major role from Tamil Nadu in both freedom struggle andfighting for equality for all castes and communities.

Purna Swaraj

Following the rejection of the recommendations of the Simon Commission by Indians, an all-party conference washeld at Bombay in May 1928. This was meant to instill a sense of resistance among people. The conferenceappointed a drafting committee under Motilal Nehru to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of theIndian National Congress asked the British government to accord dominion status to India by December 1929, ora countrywide civil disobedience movement would be launched. By 1929, however, in the midst of rising politicaldiscontent and increasingly violent regional movements, the call for complete independence from Britain began tofind increasing grounds within the Congress leadership. Under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru at its historicLahore session in December 1929, the Indian National Congress adopted a resolution calling for complete



independence from the British. It authorised the Working Committee to launch a civil disobedience movementthroughout the country. It was decided that 26 January 1930 should be observed all over India as the PurnaSwaraj (total independence) Day. Many Indian political parties and Indian revolutionaries of a wide spectrumunited to observe the day with honour and pride.

Karachi Congress session-1931

A special session was held in Karachi to endorse the Gandhi-Irwin Pact. The goal of Purna swaraj was reiterated.Two resolutions were adopted-one on Fundamental rights and other on National Economic program. This was thefirst time the congress spelt out what swaraj would mean for the masses.

Salt March and civil disobedience

Main article: Salt Satyagraha

Gandhi emerged from his long seclusion by undertaking his most famous campaign, a march of about 400kilometres [240 miles] from his commune in Ahmedabad to Dandi, on the coast of Gujarat between 11 March and6 April 1930. The march is usually known as the Dandi March or the Salt Satyagraha. At Dandi, in protestagainst British taxes on salt, he and thousands of followers broke the law by making their own salt from seawater. Ittook 24 days for him to complete this march. Every day he covered 10 miles and gave many speeches.

In April 1930 there were violent police-crowd clashes in Calcutta. Approximately 100,000 people wereimprisoned in the course of the Civil disobedience movement (193031), while in Peshawar unarmeddemonstrators were fired upon in the Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre. The latter event catapulted the then newlyformed Khudai Khidmatgar movement (founder Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the Frontier Gandhi) onto theNational scene. While Gandhi was in jail, the first Round Table Conference was held in London in November1930, without representation from the Indian National Congress. The ban upon the Congress was removedbecause of economic hardships caused by the satyagraha. Gandhi, along with other members of the CongressWorking Committee, was released from prison in January 1931.

In March 1931, the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed, and the government agreed to set all political prisoners free(Although, some of the key revolutionaries were not set free and the death sentence for Bhagat Singh and his twocomrades was not taken back which further intensified the agitation against Congress not only outside it but withinthe Congress itself). In return, Gandhi agreed to discontinue the civil disobedience movement and participate as thesole representative of the Congress in the second Round Table Conference, which was held in London inSeptember 1931. However, the conference ended in failure in December 1931. Gandhi returned to India anddecided to resume the civil disobedience movement in January 1932.

For the next few years, the Congress and the government were locked in conflict and negotiations until whatbecame the Government of India Act 1935 could be hammered out. By then, the rift between the Congress and theMuslim League had become unbridgeable as each pointed the finger at the other acrimoniously. The Muslim Leaguedisputed the claim of the Congress to represent all people of India, while the Congress disputed the MuslimLeague's claim to voice the aspirations of all Muslims.

Elections and the Lahore resolution

Main article: Lahore Resolution



Jinnah with Gandhi, 1944.

The Government of India Act 1935, the voluminous and final constitutionaleffort at governing British India, articulated three major goals: establishing aloose federal structure, achieving provincial autonomy, and safeguardingminority interests through separate electorates. The federal provisions,intended to unite princely states and British India at the centre, were notimplemented because of ambiguities in safeguarding the existing privileges ofprinces. In February 1937, however, provincial autonomy became a realitywhen elections were held; the Congress emerged as the dominant party witha clear majority in five provinces and held an upper hand in two, while theMuslim League performed poorly.

In 1939, the Viceroy Linlithgow declared India's entrance into World War IIwithout consulting provincial governments. In protest, the Congress asked all of its elected representatives to resignfrom the government. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the president of the Muslim League, persuaded participants at theannual Muslim League session at Lahore in 1940 to adopt what later came to be known as the Lahore Resolution,demanding the division of India into two separate sovereign states, one Muslim, the other Hindu; sometimesreferred to as Two Nation Theory. Although the idea of Pakistan had been introduced as early as 1930, very fewhad responded to it. However, the volatile political climate and hostilities between the Hindus and Muslimstransformed the idea of Pakistan into a stronger demand.

Revolutionary activities

Main article: Revolutionary movement for Indian independence

Apart from a few stray incidents, the armed rebellion against the British rulers was not organised before thebeginning of the 20th century. The Indian revolutionary underground began gathering momentum through the firstdecade of 20th century, with groups arising in Bengal, Maharastra, Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and thethen Madras Presidency including what is now called South India. More groups were scattered around India.Particularly notable movements arose in Bengal, especially around the Partition of Bengal in 1905, and in

Punjab.[34] In the former case, it was the educated, intelligent and dedicated youth of the urban middle class

Bhadralok community that came to form the "Classic" Indian revolutionary,[34] while the latter had an immensesupport base in the rural and Military society of the Punjab. Organisations like Jugantar and Anushilan Samiti hademerged in the 1900s (decade). The revolutionary philosophies and movement made their presence felt during the1905 Partition of Bengal. Arguably, the initial steps to organize the revolutionaries were taken by Aurobindo

Ghosh, his brother Barin Ghosh, Bhupendranath Datta etc. when they formed the Jugantar party in April 1906.[35]

Jugantar was created as an inner circle of the Anushilan Samiti which was already present in Bengal mainly as arevolutionary society in the guise of a fitness club.

The Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar opened several branches throughout Bengal and other parts of India andrecruited young men and women to participate in the revolutionary activities. Several murders and looting weredone, with many revolutionaries being captured and imprisoned. The Jugantar party leaders like Barin Ghosh andBagha Jatin initiated making of explosives. Amongst a number of notable events of political terrorism were theAlipore bomb case, the Muzaffarpur killing tried several activists and many were sentenced to deportation for life,while Khudiram Bose was hanged. The founding of the India House and The Indian Sociologist under ShyamjiKrishna Varma in London in 1905 took the radical movement to Britain itself. On 1 July 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra,an Indian student closely identified with India House in London shot dead William Hutt Curzon Wylie, a BritishM.P. in London. 1912 saw the Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy planned under Rash Behari Bose, an erstwhile Jugantar



member, to assassinate the then Viceroy of India Charles Hardinge. The conspiracy culminated in an attempt toBomb the Viceregal procession on 23 December 1912, on the occasion of transferring the Imperial Capital fromCalcutta to Delhi. In the aftermath of this event, concentrated police and intelligence efforts were made by theBritish Indian police to destroy the Bengali and Punjabi revolutionary underground, which came under intensepressure for sometime. Rash Behari successfully evaded capture for nearly three years. However, by the time thatWorld War I opened in Europe, the revolutionary movement in Bengal (and Punjab) had revived and was strong

enough to nearly paralyse the local administration.[23][24] in 1914, Indian revolutionaries made conspiracies againstBritish rule but the plan was failed and many revolutionaries sacrificed their life and others were arrested and sent tothe Cellular Jail (Kalapani) in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. During the First World War, the revolutionaries

planned to import arms and ammunitions from Germany and stage an armed revolution against the British.[36]

The Ghadar Party operated from abroad and cooperated with the revolutionaries in India. This party wasinstrumental in helping revolutionaries inside India catch hold of foreign arms. After the First World War, therevolutionary activities began to slowly wane as it suffered major setbacks due to the arrest of prominent leaders. Inthe 1920s, some revolutionary activists began to reorganise.

Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was formed under the leadership of Chandrasekhar Azad.Kakori train robbery was done largely by the members of HSRA. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw abomb inside the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 protesting against the passage of the Public SafetyBill and the Trade Disputes Bill while raising slogans of Inqulab Zindabad, though no one was killed or injured in thebomb incident. Bhagat Singh surrendered after the bombing incident and a trial was conducted. Sukhdev andRajguru were also arrested by police during search operations after the bombing incident. Following the trial(Central Assembly Bomb Case), Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged in 1931. Allama Mashriqi

founded Khaksar Tehreek in order to direct particularly the Muslims towards the independence movement.[37]

Surya Sen, along with other activists, raided the Chittagong armoury on 18 April 1930 to capture arms andammunition and to destroy government communication system to establish a local governance. Pritilata Waddedarled an attack on a European club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das attempted to assassinate Stanley Jackson,the Governor of Bengal inside the convocation hall of Calcutta University. Following the Chittagong armoury raidcase, Surya Sen was hanged and several others were deported for life to the Cellular Jail in Andaman. The BengalVolunteers started operating in 1928. On 8 December 1930, the Benoy-Badal-Dinesh trio of the party entered thesecretariat Writers' Building in Kolkata and murdered Col. N. S. Simpson, the Inspector General of Prisons.

On 13 March 1940, Udham Singh shot Michael O'Dwyer(the last political murder out side India), generally heldresponsible for the Amritsar Massacre, in London. However, as the political scenario changed in the late 1930s with the mainstream leaders considering several options offered by the British and with religious politics coming intoplay revolutionary activities gradually declined. Many past revolutionaries joined mainstream politics by joiningCongress and other parties, especially communist ones, while many of the activists were kept under hold in differentjails across the country.

The final process of Indian independence movement

In 1937, provincial elections were held and the Congress came to power in eight of the eleven provinces. This wasa strong indicator of the Indian people's support for complete Independence.

When World War II started, Viceroy Linlithgow unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of Britain,without consulting the elected Indian representatives. In opposition to Linlithgow's action, the entire Congressleadership resigned from the local government councils. However, many wanted to support the British war effort,



and indeed the British Indian Army was the largest volunteer force, numbering 2,500,000 men during the war.[38]

Especially during the Battle of Britain in 1940, Gandhi resisted calls for massive civil disobedience movements thatcame from within as well as outside his party, stating he did not seek India's freedom out of the ashes of adestroyed Britain. In 1942 the Congress launched the Quit India movement. There was some violence but the Rajcracked down and arrested tens of thousands of Congress leaders, including all the main national and provincialfigures. They were not released until the end of the war was in sight in 1945.

The independence movement saw the rise of three movements: The first of these, the Kakori conspiracy (9 August1925) was led by Indian youth under the leadership of Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil; second was the Azad Hindmovement led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose which saw its inception early in the war and joined Germany and

Japan to fight Britain; the third one saw its inception in August 1942, was led by Lal Bahadur Shastri[39] andreflected the common man resulting the failure of the Cripps' mission to reach a consensus with the Indian politicalleadership over the transfer of power after the war.

Quit India Movement

Main article: Quit India Movement

The Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan) or the August Movement was a civil disobediencemovement in India launched on 9 August 1942 in response to Gandhi's call for immediate independence of Indiaand against sending Indians to World War II. He asked all teachers to leave their schools, and other Indians toleave their respective jobs and take part in this movement. Due to Gandhi's political influence, his request wasfollowed by a massive proportion of the population.

At the outbreak of war, the Congress Party had during the Wardha meeting of the working-committee in

September 1939, passed a resolution conditionally supporting the fight against fascism,[40] but were rebuffed whenthey asked for independence in return. In March 1942, faced with an increasingly dissatisfied sub-continent onlyreluctantly participating in the war, and deteriorations in the war situation in Europe and South East Asia, and withgrowing dissatisfactions among Indian troops- especially in Europe- and among the civilian population in the sub-continent, the British government sent a delegation to India under Stafford Cripps, in what came to be known as theCripps' Mission. The purpose of the mission was to negotiate with the Indian National Congress a deal to obtaintotal co-operation during the war, in return of progressive devolution and distribution of power from the crown andthe Viceroy to elected Indian legislature. However, the talks failed, having failed to address the key demand of atimeframe towards self-government, and of definition of the powers to be relinquished, essentially portraying an

offer of limited dominion-status that was wholly unacceptable to the Indian movement.[41] To force the British Rajto meet its demands and to obtain definitive word on total independence, the Congress took the decision to launchthe Quit India Movement.

The aim of the movement was to bring the British Government to the negotiating table by holding the Allied WarEffort hostage. The call for determined but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for themovement is best described by his call to Do or Die, issued on 8 August at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay,since renamed August Kranti Maidan (August Revolution Ground). However, almost the entire Congressleadership, and not merely at the national level, was put into confinement less than twenty-four hours after Gandhi'sspeech, and the greater number of the Congress khiland were to spend the rest of the war in jail.



On 8 August 1942, the Quit India resolution was passed at the Bombay session of the All India CongressCommittee (AICC). The draft proposed that if the British did not accede to the demands, a massive CivilDisobedience would be launched. However, it was an extremely controversial decision. At Gowalia Tank,Mumbai, Gandhi urged Indians to follow a non-violent civil disobedience. Gandhi told the masses to act as anindependent nation and not to follow the orders of the British. The British, already alarmed by the advance of theJapanese army to the IndiaBurma border, responded the next day by imprisoning Gandhi at the Aga Khan Palacein Pune. The Congress Party's Working Committee, or national leadership was arrested all together and imprisonedat the Ahmednagar Fort. They also banned the party altogether. Large-scale protests and demonstrations were heldall over the country. Workers remained absent en masse and strikes were called. The movement also sawwidespread acts of sabotage, Indian under-ground organisation carried out bomb attacks on allied supply convoys,government buildings were set on fire, electricity lines were disconnected and transport and communication lineswere severed. The disruptions were under control in a few weeks and had little impact on the war effort. Themovement soon became a leaderless act of defiance, with a number of acts that deviated from Gandhi's principle ofnon-violence. In large parts of the country, the local underground organisations took over the movement. However,by 1943, Quit India had petered out.

All the other major parties rejected the Quit India plan, and most cooperated closely with the British, as did theprincely states, the civil service and the police. The Muslim League supported the Raj and grew rapidly inmembership, and in influence with the British.

Indian National Army

Main articles: Indian National Army, Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, andWorld War II

See also: Legion Freies Indien, Battaglione Azad Hindoustan, Capt. Mohan Singh, Indian IndependenceLeague, and INA trials

The arbitrary entry of India into the war was strongly opposed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who had beenelected President of the Congress twice, in 1938 and 1939. After lobbying against participation in the war, heresigned from Congress in 1939 and started a new party, the All India Forward Bloc. In 1940, a year after warbroke out, the British had put Bose under house arrest in Calcutta. However, he escaped and made his waythrough Afghanistan to Germany to seek Axis help to raise an army to fight the British. Here, he raised with ErwinRommel's Indian POWs what came to be known as the Free India Legion. Bose made his way to Japanese SouthAsia, where he formed what came to be known as the Azad Hind Government, a Provisional Free IndianGovernment in exile, and organised the Indian National Army with Indian POWs and Indian expatriates in South-East Asia, with the help of the Japanese. Its aim was to reach India as a fighting force that would build on publicresentment to inspire revolts among Indian soldiers to defeat the British raj.

The INA was to see action against the allies, including the British Indian Army, in the forests of Arakan, Burma andin Assam, laying siege on Imphal and Kohima with the Japanese 15th Army. During the war, the Andaman andNicobar islands were captured by the Japanese and handed over by them to the INA. Bose renamed them Shahid(Martyr) and Swaraj (Independence).



Netaji Subhas Chandra

Bose.

The INA failed, owing to disrupted logistics, poor arms and supplies from the Japanese, and lack of support and

training.[42] The supposed death of Bose is seen as culmination of the entire Azad Hind Movement. Following thesurrender of Japan, the troops of the INA were brought to India and a number of them charged with treason.However, Bose's actions had captured the public imagination and also turned the inclination of the native soldiers ofthe British Indian Forces from one of loyalty to the crown to support for the soldiers that the Raj deemed as

collaborators.[43][44]

After the war, the stories of the Azad Hind movement and its army that came into public limelight during the trials ofsoldiers of the INA in 1945 were seen as so inflammatory that, fearing mass revolts and uprisings not just inIndia, but across its empire the British Government forbade the BBC from

broadcasting their story.[45] Newspapers reported the summary execution of INA

soldiers held at Red Fort.[46] During and after the trial, mutinies broke out in theBritish Indian Armed forces, most notably in the Royal Indian Navy which foundpublic support throughout India, from Karachi to Mumbai and from Vizag to

Kolkata.[47][48][49] Many historians have argued that the INA, and the mutinies it

inspired, were strong driving forces behind the transfer of power in 1947.[50][51][52]

Christmas Island Mutiny & Royal Indian Navy mutiny

Main article: Royal Indian Navy mutiny

After two Japanese attacks on Christmas Island in late February and early March1942 relations between the British officers and their Indian troops broke down. Onthe night of 10 March the Indian troops led by a Sikh policemen mutinied killing thefive British soldiers and the imprisoning of the remaining 21 Europeans on the island. Later on 31 March, a

Japanese fleet arrived at the island and the Indians surrendered.[53]

The Royal Indian Navy mutiny (also called the Bombay Mutiny) encompasses a total strike and subsequent mutinyby Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay (Mumbai) harbouron 18 February 1946. From the initial flashpoint in Bombay, the mutiny spread and found support throughoutBritish India, from Karachi to Calcutta and ultimately came to involve 78 ships, 20 shore establishments and 20,000

sailors.[54]

The agitations, mass strikes, demonstrations and consequently support for the mutineers, therefore continuedseveral days even after the mutiny had been called off. Along with this, the assessment may be made that itdescribed in crystal clear terms to the government that the British Indian Armed forces could no longer beuniversally relied upon for support in crisis, and even more it was more likely itself to be the source of the sparks

that would ignite trouble in a country fast slipping out of the scenario of political settlement.[55]

Independence and partition of India

Main articles: History of the Republic of India, Partition of India, and Pakistan movement

On 3 June 1947, Viscount Louis Mountbatten, the last British Governor-General of India, announced thepartitioning of British India into India and Pakistan. With the speedy passage through the British Parliament of theIndian Independence Act 1947, at 11:57 on 14 August 1947 Pakistan was declared a separate nation, and at12:02, just after midnight, on 15 August 1947, India also became an independent nation. Violent clashes between



Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims followed. Prime Minister Nehru and deputy prime minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patelinvited Mountbatten to continue as Governor General of India. He was replaced in June 1948 by ChakravartiRajagopalachari. Patel took on the responsibility of bringing into the Indian Union 565 princely states, steeringefforts by his "iron fist in a velvet glove" policies, exemplified by the use of military force to integrate Junagadh andHyderabad state into India (Operation Polo). On the other hand Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru kept the issue ofKashmir in his hands.

The Constituent Assembly completed the work of drafting the constitution on 26 November 1949; on 26 January1950 the Republic of India was officially proclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad asthe first President of India, taking over from Governor General Rajgopalachari. Subsequently India invaded andannexed Goa and Portugal's other Indian enclaves in 1961), the French ceded Chandernagore in 1951, andPondichry and its remaining Indian colonies in 1956, and Sikkim voted to join the Indian Union in 1975.

Following Independence in 1947, India remained in the Commonwealth of Nations, and relations between the UKand India have been friendly. There are many areas in which the two countries seek stronger ties for mutual benefit,and there are also strong cultural and social ties between the two nations. The UK has an ethnic Indian populationof over 1.6 million. In 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron described Indian British relations as the "New

Special Relationship".[56]

See also

India

Subhas Chandra BoseMohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Partition of IndiaPartition of Bengal

Macaulayism

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Further reading

Brown, Judith M. Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 19151922 (Cambridge South Asian Studies)(1974)

MK Gandhi. My Experiments with Truth Editor's note by Mahadev Desai (Beacon Press) (1993)Brown, Judith M., 'Gandhi and Civil Resistance in India, 191747', in Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton

Ash (eds.), Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhito the Present. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-955201-6.Jalal, Ayesha. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

(Cambridge South Asian Studies) (1994)Majumdar, R.C. History of the Freedom movement in India. ISBN 0-8364-2376-3.

Gandhi, Mohandas (1993). An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth. Boston:Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-5909-9.

Sofri, Gianni (19951999). Gandhi and India: A Century in Focus. Janet Sethre Paxia (translator)(English edition translated from the Italian ed.). Gloucestershire: The Windrush Press. ISBN 1-900624-12-5.

Gonsalves, Peter. Khadi: Gandhi's Mega Symbol of Subversion, (Sage Publications), (2012)Gopal, Sarvepalli. Jawaharlal Nehru Volume One: 1889 1947 A Biography (1975), standard

scholarly biographySeal, Anil (1968). Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later

Nineteenth Century. London: Cambridge U.P. ISBN 0-521-06274-8.Singh, Jaswant. Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence (2010)Chandra, Bipan; Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan, K.N. Panikkar (1989). India's

Struggle for Independence. New Delhi: Penguin Books. p. 600. ISBN 978-0-14-010781-4.



Heehs, Peter (1998). India's Freedom Struggle: A Short History. Delhi: Oxford University Press. p. 199.ISBN 978-0-19-562798-5.

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External links

Muslim freedom martyrs of India (http://twocircles.net/2009oct01/muslim_freedom_martyrs_india.html)

TCN NewsIndian Freedom Fighters (http://www.peopleforever.org/community.aspx?communityid=64) Tribute on

PeopleForever.orgPakistani Freedom Fighters (http://www.peopleforever.org/community.aspx?communityid=70) Tribute on

PeopleForever.orgOrigin of Non-Violence (http://www.sikhism.com/articles/origin_non_violence.htm)Independence movement (http://www.freeindia.org/dynamic/)

Mahatma Gandhi (http://web.mahatma.org.in/flash.html)Indian Government (http://goidirectory.nic.in/)

Raja Mahendapratap (http://www.rajamahendrapratap.com)Timeline of Indian independence movement (http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/timeline.htm)

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