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Indian independence movement
- Gandhi–Irwin PactThe Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on the 5th of March 1931, and Winston Churchill was furious. He called it a nauseating and humiliating spectacle to watch…
- Muslim nationalism in South AsiaIn the medieval era, an Islamic society in India originated from Persianate culture that spread the religion amongst Indians.
- Rowlatt ActSidney Rowlatt chaired a committee appointed in 1917 to evaluate political terrorism and the Indian independence movement.
- Communal AwardBritish Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award on the 16th of August 1932. This decision followed the failure of the Second Round Table…
- Khilafat MovementThe Khilafat Movement was a political campaign launched by South Asian Muslims in British India between 1919 and 1922, aimed at reversing Allied policy…
- Independence Day (India)India's Independence Day falls on the 15th of August every year, marking the moment in 1947 when the Indian Independence Act transferred legislative…
- Indian independence movementOn the 13th of April 1919, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer blocked the only entrance to a walled courtyard called Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab.
- Indian National CongressThe Indian National Congress held its very first session in Bombay in December 1885, with just 72 delegates in attendance. Most of them were lawyers.
- Jallianwala Bagh massacreOn the 13th of April 1919, a crowd gathered inside a walled garden in Amritsar to do two things: celebrate the Baisakhi harvest festival and protest a law…
- Bengal RenaissanceThe Bengal Renaissance began, according to many historians, on the 23rd of June 1757, when British East India Company forces defeated the Nawab of Bengal and…
- Gandhi capMahatma Gandhi sat in conversation with Kaka Kalelkar during the early 1920s to discuss headwear options for Indian men.
- Round Table Conferences (India)The Round Table Conferences of 1930-1932 brought India and Britain to the same table in London for three rounds of negotiations over the future of one of the…
- Swadeshi movementThe Swadeshi movement was born on the 7th of August 1905, at Town Hall in Calcutta, with a single defiant act: Indians pledging to turn away from British…