one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. Subhash Chandra Bose was born to an affluent family in Cuttack‚ Orissa. His father‚ Janakinath Bose‚ was a public prosecutor who believed in orthodox nationalism‚ and later became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council. His mother was Prabhavati Bose‚ a remarkable example of Indian womanhood. Bose was educated at Cambridge University. In 1920‚ Bose took the Indian Civil Service entrance examination and
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Sarojini Naidu‚ also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India‚ was a child prodigy‚ Indian independence activist and poet. Naidu was one of the framers of the Indian Constitution. Naidu is the second Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh state. Her birthday is celebrated as Women’s Day all over India. Early Life She was born in Hyderabad to a Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family to Agorenath Chattopadhyay
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August in India commemorating the nation’s independence from Kingdom of Great Britain on 15 August 1947. India attained independence following an independence movement noted for largely nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by the Indian National Congress (INC). Independence coincided with the partition of India‚ in which the British Indian Empire was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan; the partition was accompanied by violent riots and mass casualties‚ and
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truthful and this helped him throughout his life. Some of the major movements and freedom struggles led by him are discussed below. Non Co-operation Movement One of the first series of non violent protests nationwide was the non cooperation movement started by Mahatma Gandhi. This movement officially started the Gandhian era in India. In this freedom struggle‚ the non cooperation movement was basically aimed at making the Indians aware of
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The life under the British rule was really bad and totally unfair for the indians they had no right‚ the original rulers of India were the Mughals. After that the British East India Company became the rulers. The British government took over‚ after the Sepoy Rebellion. Indians used nonviolence to gain Independence from the British using the Salt March‚ Dharasana salt works and day of the Prayer and Fast. The Salt March is one of the protests that was an event with non violence used to gain independence
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way to the nation‚ and that man was Gandhi. The gradual takeover by the British was not unnoticed by Mahatmas Gandhi. The Indian economy was suffering‚ and as Dr. Nanda Kishor argues‚ Gandhi was strongly motivated to free India from the unhealthy economy‚ and did so in a father-like manner. The BBC agree with argument‚ quoting: “…to be truly equal (with the British) the Indians would need independence from British rule.” Gandhi sought to rid India of the British superpower‚ and achieve his goals of
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from an Indian businessman in South Africa‚ Dada Abdulla‚ to join him as a legal adviser. The Indians who had been living in South Africa were without political rights‚ and were generally known by the derogatory name of ‘coolies’. Gandhi himself came to an awareness of the frightening force when he thrown out of a first-class railway compartment car‚ though he held a first-class ticket‚ at Pietermaritzburg. From this political awakening‚ Gandhi was to emerge as the leader of the Indian community
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta‚[1] born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛs ˈɡɔɲdʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]) and commonly known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)‚ was an ethnic Albanian‚ Indian Roman Catholic nun. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto‚ an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months’ training in Dublin she was sent to India
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Mission 1942: The sacred recommendations for looking for Indian collaboration for war endeavors: • Territory status • Indian sacred body to casing constitution • August states would be spoken to. The Cripps Mission arranged with Indian pioneers and issued the proposition. The Congress dismisses the proposition and requested that a mindful government would be set up quickly after the war. The protection issues ought to be under the Indian control. The Muslim Association likewise dismisses the recommendations
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methods as he was unable to cooperate and negotiate with the British. Conversely‚ demands for nationalism increased across India and the British began to lose any moral authority they had over the Indians. Gandhi’s methods of non-violent‚ civil disobedience were hugely effective in turning many Indians against British rule‚ increasing demands for Purna Swaraj and attacking the revenue that the British relied on to survive within India. Source 1 is a declaration written by Gandhi‚ a speech in which
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