India Independence and Partition 1947: The Price of Freedom
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, India awoke to life and freedom. But as the Union Jack...
The Cabinet Mission Plan: The Blueprint That Could Have Prevented Partition
In 1946, three British ministers arrived in Delhi with a blueprint to save a united India. Discover how the Cabinet...
Quit India Movement: How a Leaderless Nation Fought for Freedom
In August 1942, with the world at war, Mahatma Gandhi gave a fiery call to "Do or Die." Discover the...
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...
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...
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