by the Chief Censor even exceeded the scope of the Rule 48 of the Defence and Internal Security of India Rules insofar as they prevented editors leaving editorial columns blank or filling them with quotations from great works of literature or from national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi‚ or Rabindranath Tagore. The I&B ministry did not attempt to find out whether these guidelines were within the scope of Defence and Internal Security of India Rules or not. Parliament and court proceedings were also subject
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and Mountbatten‚ as described in the Mountbatten Papers. Singh‚ 2009‚ pg. 435 [ 48 ] [ 49 ]. Wolpert‚ 1996‚ pg. 436 [ 50 ] [ 51 ]. Extract from Frank Moraes’s biography of Nehru. Majumdar‚ 1966‚ pg. 165 [ 52 ] [ 53 ]. Jha‚ D.C. Mahatma Gandhi: The Congress and Partition of India. New Delhi: India Research Press‚ 2004. pg. 103 [ 54 ] [ 55 ]. Mosley‚ Leonard. Last Days of the British Raj. (London: Widenfield and Nicholson‚ 1961). pg. 265 [ 56 ] [ 57 ]. Wolpert‚ 1996‚ pg. 387
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influenced by the liberalism of William E. Gladstone‚ who had become prime minister for the fourth time in 1892‚ the year of Jinnah’s arrival in London. Jinnah also took a keen interest in the affairs of India and in Indian students. When the Parsi leader Dadabhai Naoroji‚ a leading Indian nationalist‚ ran for the
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak Born in a well-cultured Brahim family on July 23‚ 1856 in Ratangari‚ Maharashtra‚ Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a multifacet personality. He is considered to be the ‘Father of Indian Unrest’. He was a scholar of Indian history‚ Sanskrit‚ mathematics‚ astronomy and Hinduism. He had imbibed values‚ cultures and intelligence from his father Gangadhar Ramchandra Tilak who was a Sanskrit scholar and a famous teacher. At the age of 10‚ Bal Gangadhar went to Pune with his family as his father
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July 31‚ 1940) was an Indian Sikh independence activist‚ best known for assassinating Michael O’Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avenging of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre.[1] Udham Singh changed his name to Ram Mohammad Singh Azad and was also known as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad‚ symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism‚ Islam and Sikhism. Singh is considered one of the best-known of the more heroic revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle;
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wanted to run their own country. They fought hard and protested with little to no success‚ until one man came onto the scene‚ his name was Lala Lajpat Rai. His goal was to reform Indian Policy through political tactics and through his writings. Lala focused on peaceful movements to create successful demonstrations for Indian Independence. The nickname he was given was Punjab Kesari‚ which meant The Lion of Punjab. Lala Lajpat Rai was born in 1865 into an Aggarwal‚ or trader family. His birth took place
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facet of the Indian psyche that the concept of ‘foreign’ has not permeated. This term‚ connoting modernization‚ international brands and acquisitions by MNCs in popular imagination‚ has acquired renewed significance after the reforms initiated by the Centre for Civil Society -2- Indian Government in 1991. Contrary to the grand narrative ‘opening of flood-gates idea’ of 1991‚ what took place was a gradual process of changes in policies on investment in certain sub-sections of the Indian economy.
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went to South Africa to work in 1907. In South Africa‚ he took part in passive protests against the Transvaal government’s treatment of Indian settlers who were in the minority in the region. In 1915‚ he returned to India and‚ after joining the Congress movement‚ he emerged as one of the party’s leaders. Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British goods and buy Indian goods instead. This helped to revitalise local economies in India and it also hit home at the British by undermining their economy in
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suggestions given by the Indian Leaders. In Indian Act 1919‚ it was said that new reforms are introduced in Indian Act 1929. So they started coming up with for 1929 Act. In 1927 British Government appointed a commission to draft coming constitution that is referred to as Simon Commission. There was no representative of Indians in this Commission that’s why all the parties decided to boycott of this commission except Shafi League. There was great bitterness among Indians as a result of they were waiting
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involved breach of fundamental rights by majority groups who had the support of political parties. The petitioner also said that such caste-based rallies create enmity among castes and promote caste discrimination. The Centre‚ state government‚ ECI‚ Congress‚ BJP‚ SP and BSP have been made respondents in the PIL.1 The order was passed by a division bench comprising Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Mahendra Dayal on the public interest litigation (PIL) of a local lawyer Motilal Yadav and on behalf
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