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9 August
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The Kakori train action was carried out by Hindustan Republican Association revolutionaries.
Ram Prasad Bismil: Thirty Years That Changed Everything
On the morning of 19 December 1927, Ram Prasad Bismil walked to the gallows in Gorakhpur Central Jail with a composure that left the prison authorities visibly shaken.…
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Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the national flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan as senior Congress leaders were arrested.
Aruna Asaf Ali: How She Ran the Underground Quit India Network
On the morning of 9 August 1942, while every senior Congress leader in India was being arrested in a coordinated colonial sweep that the British government had spent…
Read the storyIndian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces
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India signs a 20-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union
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