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Tryst with Destiny, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's Independence Day Speech (1947) video by Indian National Congress " Tryst with Destiny " was an English-language speech by Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of India , to the Indian Constituent Assembly in the Parliament House , on the eve of India's Independence , towards midnight on 14 ...
Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan (1 January 1875 – 13 May 1951), known by his pen-name Hasrat Mohani, was an Indian activist, freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement and a noted poet of the Urdu language. [1]
Kanaklata Barua (22 December 1924 – 20 September 1942), also called Birangana and Shaheed (martyr), was an Indian independence activist who was shot dead by the Indian Imperial Police of the British Raj while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
A subset of Founding Fathers of Pakistan met in Lahore in 1940 to discuss the idea of Pakistan. The Founders and activists of the Pakistan Movement, also known as Founding Fathers of Pakistan (Urdu:بانیانِ پاکستان; Romanization lit.:bəŋɨaɪaɪ-e-Pəkɨstəŋ), were the political leaders and statespersons who participated in the success of the political movement, following the ...
Vallinayagam Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai (5 September 1872 - 18 November 1936) was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, businessman and politician.He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC).
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Tiruppur Kumaran also known as Kodi Kaatha Kumaran (4 October 1904 – 11 January 1932) was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter who participated in the Indian independence movement. He is said to have held up the Indian tricolor flag even during his death. Kumaran was born as Kumaraswamy Mudaliyar.
The Goa liberation movement was a movement which fought to end Portuguese colonial rule in Goa, Portuguese India.The movement built on the small scale revolts and uprisings of the 19th century, and grew powerful during the period 1940–1961.