Curated playlist
Prisoners and detainees of British India
- Mahatma GandhiOn the day India won freedom, Gandhi refused to celebrate. He fasted and spun cloth in Calcutta, pleading for peace.
- Ramdas GandhiRamdas Gandhi lit his father Mahatma Gandhi's funeral pyre. He had wanted the task, and it was granted to him.
- Manilal GandhiManilal Gandhi edited a weekly newspaper in Durban for thirty-six years. He was Mohandas Gandhi's son.
- Atal Bihari VajpayeeAtal Bihari Vajpayee ordered nuclear tests, then rode a bus to Lahore.
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Desai kept a daily diary for twenty-five years as Gandhi's secretary. It fills twenty-two volumes.
- Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru spent over nine years in prison across eight separate detentions. He later led India for 16 years.
- Devdas GandhiDevdas Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's youngest son, had to wait five years to marry Lakshmi. They wed in 1933.
- Kasturba GandhiKasturba Gandhi led fellow prisoners in prayer during her 1913 jail term in South Africa.
- Maulana AzadJailed in Ahmednagar Fort, Maulana Azad wrote 24 letters that were never sent. Mail was forbidden.
- Vallabhbhai PatelVallabhbhai Patel had to persuade more than 565 princely states to join India.
- Subhas Chandra BoseSubhas Chandra Bose is remembered in India as Netaji, a Hindustani title that means Respected Leader. The name did not begin on Indian soil. It was first used in early 1942, in Berlin. The speakers were soldiers of the Indische Legion,…
- Vinayak Damodar SavarkarVinayak Savarkar jumped from a ship's window at Marseille and swam to shore.
- Bhogaraju Pattabhi SitaramayyaBhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya kept a diary during three years in an Ahmednagar fort prison.
- Sarojini NaiduSarojini Naidu led India's Salt March campaign after Gandhi was arrested. She had persuaded him to let women march.