Curated category
Prisoners and detainees of British India
- Mahatma GandhiAt 5:17 p.m. on the 30th of January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was walking through the garden of Birla House in Delhi, his grandnieces beside him, on…
- Ramdas GandhiRamdas Gandhi was born on the 4th of May 1897 in the British Colony of Natal, the third son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi.
- Manilal GandhiManilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 28th of October 1892 in Rajkot, British India, the second of four sons in one of the most consequential families of…
- Atal Bihari VajpayeeAtal Bihari Vajpayee joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1939, at the age of 12, as a volunteer in Gwalior. Decades later, that same boy would be sworn…
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Haribhai Desai spent the last morning of his life exactly where he had spent so much of the previous twenty-five years: beside Mahatma Gandhi, inside…
- Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as prime minister at the stroke of midnight on the 15th of August 1947, and he raised the Indian flag at the Red Fort in Delhi.
- Devdas GandhiDevdas Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 22nd of May 1900 in the Colony of Natal, far from the subcontinent his father would one day help liberate.
- Kasturba GandhiKasturba Gokuldas Kapadia entered the world on the 11th of April 1869 in the coastal town of Porbandar. Her family belonged to the Modh Bania caste, a group…
- Maulana AzadAbul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin entered the world on the 11th of November 1888 within the holy city of Mecca. His father Muhammad Khairuddin bin Ahmed Al…
- Vallabhbhai PatelVallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was born on the 31st of October 1875 in Nadiad, Gujarat, and he died on the 15th of December 1950 in Bombay.
- Vinayak Damodar SavarkarVinayak Damodar Savarkar died on the 26th of February 1966 at his residence in Bombay, having renounced food, water, and medicine twenty-five days earlier.
- Bhogaraju Pattabhi SitaramayyaOn the 24th of November 1880, Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya was born in Gundugolanu village. He grew up in Krishna district within what is now Andhra…
- Sarojini NaiduSarojini Naidu was born on the 13th of February 1879 in Hyderabad, into a family that seemed to run on creative and political fire.