Salt Satyagraha 1930: Inside Mahatma Gandhi’s Historic Dandi March
In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi decided to walk 240 miles to the sea to pick up a handful of salt. The ...
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Non-Cooperation Movement 1920-1922: The Day India Said “No” to the British
In 1920, Mahatma Gandhi asked a nation of 300 million to simply "stop." Stop buying British cloth, stop attending their ...
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919: Inside the Tragedy That Ignited a Revolution
On Baisakhi 1919, a festive crowd in Amritsar was trapped in a walled garden with no escape. Ten minutes later, ...
Mahatma Gandhi Return to India: 1915 and the Year of Silence
On a crisp winter morning in 1915, a 45-year-old barrister stepped off a steamship in Bombay, ending 21 years of ...
Muslim League Founded (1906): A New Voice in Colonial India
In December 1906, a group of Nawabs and aristocrats gathered in Dhaka, worried that their voices were being drowned out ...
Partition of Bengal 1905: Lord Curzon’s Blunder and the Rise of Swadeshi
In 1905, Lord Curzon drew a line on a map to divide Hindus and Muslims in Bengal, hoping to crush ...
Indian National Congress Founded (1885): How a “Safety Valve” Became a Freedom Engine
In December 1885, a retired Scotsman and 72 educated Indians gathered in Bombay for what seemed like a polite tea ...
Establishment of the British Raj 1858: The Dawn of Imperial India
In 1858, following the bloody Revolt of 1857, Queen Victoria issued a proclamation that ended the rule of the East ...
The Revolt of 1857: When India First Challenged the British Empire
In 1857, a rumor about greased cartridges sparked a fire that consumed North India. From Mangal Pandey’s first shot to ...
Annexation of Punjab 1849: How Britain Stole the Kingdom of Five Rivers
In 1849, the sun set on the Sikh Empire. After two bloody wars and years of court intrigue, the British ...
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