When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement

    The Indian textile industry also played an important role in the freedom struggle of India. The merchandise of the textile industry pioneered the Industrial Revolution in India and soon England was producing cotton cloth in such great quantities that the domestic market was saturated, and the products had to be sold in foreign markets.

  3. Revolutionary movement for Indian independence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_movement_for...

    The Revolutionary movement for Indian Independence was part of the Indian independence movement comprising the actions of violent underground revolutionary factions. Groups believing in armed revolution against the ruling British fall into this category, as opposed to the generally peaceful civil disobedience movement spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi.

  4. Champaran Satyagraha - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champaran_Satyagraha

    The Champaran Satyagraha gave direction to India's youth and freedom struggle, which was tottering between moderates who prescribed Indian participation within the British colonial system, and the radicals from Bengal who advocated the use of violent methods to topple British colonial rule in India. [3]

  5. Swadeshi movement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadeshi_movement

    The Indian National Congress used this movement as arsenal for its freedom struggle and ultimately on 15 August 1947, a hand-spun Khadi tricolor Ashoka Chakra Indian flag was unfurled at Princess Park near India Gate, New Delhi by Jawaharlal Nehru. [4] The government's decision to partition Bengal was made in December 1903. The official reason ...

  6. The Indian Struggle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indian_Struggle

    The first part of The Indian Struggle covering the years 1920–1934 was published in London in 1935 by Lawrence and Wishart. [1] Bose had been in exile in Europe following his arrest and detention by the colonial government for his association with the revolutionary group, the Bengal Volunteers and his suspected role in several acts of violence. [2]

  7. Y. Adinarayana Reddy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._Adinarayana_Reddy

    Yerrapureddy Adinarayana Reddy (15 October 1916 – 8 June 2002) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He organized the Individual Satyagraha Movement 1940 in the District and suffered three months in the Vellore Central Jail.

  8. Communist involvement in the Indian independence movement

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_involvement_in...

    When Indian left-wing elements formed the Congress Socialist Party in 1934, the CPI branded it as Social Fascist. [15] The League Against Gandhism, initially known as the Gandhi Boycott Committee, was a political organisation in Calcutta, founded by the underground Communist Party of India and others to launch militant anti-Imperialist ...

  9. History of India (1947–present) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India_(1947...

    The violence was stopped by early September owing to the co-operative efforts of both Indian and Pakistani leaders, and especially due to the efforts of Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Indian freedom struggle, who undertook a fast-unto-death in Calcutta and later in Delhi to calm people and emphasise peace despite the threat to his life.