Modern India
This is the India of right now — the one you live in, argue about, and read the news over. This section leaves the history books and looks at the present: the elections and the politics, the price of onions and the hunt for a government job, the protests that fill the streets, the schemes that promise a lot and reach the doorstep as less, the old questions of caste and fairness in a new century. Written straight down the middle — what happened, who's angry, what each side says — this is where Curious Indian turns from the past to the citizen's life today.
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: The Shot That Silenced a Nation
On a winter evening in 1948, three shots rang out at Birla House, silencing the man who had brought an...
Cabinet Mission Plan: 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 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: 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,...
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...
Indian National Congress (1885): 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...
Annexation of Punjab 1849: How Britain Stole 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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