Role of Women in India’s Struggle for Freedom Introduction The history of Indian Freedom Struggle would be incomplete without mentioning the contributions of women. The sacrifice made by the women of India will occupy the foremost place. They fought with true spirit and undaunted courage and faced various tortures‚ exploitations and hardships to earn us freedom. When most of the men freedom fighters were in prison the women came forward and took charge of the struggle. The list of great women whose
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an age ends‚ and when the soul of a nation‚ long suppressed‚ finds utterance… We end today a period of ill fortune‚ and India discovers herself again.” These are the impressive words of the speech titled‚ “Tryst with Destiny” given by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on August 15‚ 1947. The real struggle for independence of India had begun almost 90 years before in 1857‚ when a group of sepoys mutinied against the East India Company. Nevertheless it needed another 90 years for India to become an Independent
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Indira Gandhi’s biography Indira Gandhi was born on the 19th of November in 1917 in Allahabad. She was part of the Nehru Family. Indira Gandhi’s dad was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mom was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather‚ Motilal Nehru‚ was a Indian nationalist leader. Her father‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ was a important person in the independent movement of India. In 1934–35‚ after finishing school‚ Indira went to Shantiniketan‚ a school invented by Rabindranath Tagore. Then‚ she went to England and sat
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My name is Indira Nehru Gandi and I was born on November 19‚ 1917 in Allahabad‚India. I studied in Visva-Bharati University‚ Somerville College‚and in the University of Oxford. I had a great passion for education because Education is a liberating force‚ and in our age it is also a democratizing force‚ cutting across the barriers of caste and class‚ smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. My father‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ led India’s political struggle for independence from
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MY AIM IN LIFE “The mere act of aiming at something big makes you big.” (Jawaharlal Nehru) Bestowing man with life and sending him on earth to live is fully justified. This all has been done for a specific reason. Idealizing his purpose and endeavoring to objectify it into reality is the real pinnacle/ culmination of human being. A man without an aim is like a rudderless ship
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and triumphs of the struggle”. From a Resolution passed on January 26‚ 1931. When the history of India’s fight for Independence comes to be written‚ the sacrifice made by the women of India will occupy the foremost place - Mahatma GandhiJawaharlal Nehru had remarked‚ when most of the men-folk were in prison then a remarkable thing happened. Our women came forward and took charge of the struggle. Women had always been there of course but now there was an avalanche of them‚ which took not only the British
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In special reference No.1 of 2002 ‚ Re‚ (Gujarat assembly election matter) ‚ the debate in the constituent assembly on article 85 and 174 was looked into. Khare‚ J .(as the learned chief justice then was) referred to kesavanandabharti case in support of the proposition that the constituent assembly debates are permissible aids in construction to ascertain intention to the constitution. The learned judge observed as follows : One of the known methods to discern the intention behind enacting a provision
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India got freedom against the British Rule after so many years of struggle. On this day we pay tribute to our great freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi‚ Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru‚ Bal Gangadhar Tilak‚ Sarojini Naidu and many others who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of our country. It is on this day in 1947 that Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru addressed the constituent assembly at the Parliament‚ delivering his famed‚ eloquent speech‚ Tryst with Destiny announcing India’s freedom at midnight. This announcement
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festival of life. It was started in India‚ as a campaign to save mother earth The name Vanamahotsava (the festival of trees) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi‚ in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru‚ Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated. The week was simultaneously celebrated in a number of states. Since then‚ lakhs of saplings of different species were planted with active involvement of agencies like the forest
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the Indira Gandhi’s methodology and political contributions‚ it is necessary to first analyze the political state of her country‚ as well as her background and career as a whole. Indira was born into the Nehru family whom had a strong political background all on its own. Indira’s father‚ Jawaharlal‚ and her grandfather‚ Motilal‚ were both members of the Indian National Congress‚ which was very sympathetic toward the rising nationalism of the Indian middle class (Butler 27). This meant that from the
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