Month: August 2025

The Green Revolution in India refers to the rapid adoption of high‑yielding varieties (HYV) of wheat and rice, alongside expanded ...

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 erupted after Pakistan’s August infiltration into Jammu & Kashmir (Operation Gibraltar), escalated into large-scale conventional fighting across the international border in early September, and ended ...

The Sino-Indian War erupted on 20 October 1962 with simultaneous Chinese offensives in the western sector (Aksai Chin, Ladakh) and ...

India’s Constitution was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 and came into effect on 26 January 1950, ...

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 at Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti) in New Delhi, when Nathuram Vinayak ...

India achieved independence from British rule in August 1947 through the Indian Independence Act, 1947, which created two dominions—India and ...

The Cabinet Mission arrived in India on 24 March 1946 to negotiate the transfer of power and propose a constitutional ...

The Quit India Movement was launched on 8 August 1942 at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee, ...

The Salt Satyagraha—popularly known as the Dandi March—was Mahatma Gandhi’s 24‑day, 240–387km nonviolent march from Sabarmati Ashram to the coastal ...

The Non-Cooperation Movement was India’s first nationwide mass agitation led by Mahatma Gandhi to resist British rule through nonviolent non-cooperation, ...