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The Quit India Movement was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India. After the British failed to secure Indian support for the British war effort with the Cripps Mission, Gandhi made a call to Do or Die in his ...
Bharat Jodo Yatra (lit. ' Unite India March ') was a mass movement [1] [2] which was held by the Indian National Congress ("the Congress" or INC as short form). [3] Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi orchestrated the movement by encouraging the party cadre and the public to walk from Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a journey of 4,080 ...
Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]
Bharat Ratna (1997) Aruna Asaf Ali (née Ganguly; 16 July 1909 – 29 July 1996) was an Indian educator, political activist, and publisher. An active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan, Bombay during the Quit India Movement in 1942.
Jayprakash Narayan Srivastava was born on 11 October 1902 [4][5] in the village of Sitabdiara, Saran district, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, India). [1] [a] His house was near the banks of the flood-prone Ghaghara river; every time the river swelled, the house would be slightly damaged, eventually ...
Profession. Civil Servant, Political Reformer. Known for. Lok Satta Movement, Political Commentary. Jaya Prakash Narayana (born 14 January 1956) is an Indian liberal politician, activist and a former public administrator. [1] He is the founder and president of Lok Satta Party. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kukatpally ...
Saifuddin Kitchlew (15 January 1888 – 9 October 1963) was an Indian independence activist, barrister, politician and later a leader of the peace movement.A member of Indian National Congress, he first became Punjab Provincial Congress Committee (Punjab PCC) head and later the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in 1924.
Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (lit. ' Uniting India for Justice March '), [2] commonly referred to as the Nyay Yatra (lit. ' Justice March ') [3] [4] was a movement led by the Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, starting on 14 January 2024 from Thoubal in Manipur and ended on 16 March 2024 in Mumbai spanning east-west of India. [5]