Indian Independence Movement under Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964. Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state; a sovereign‚ socialist‚ secular‚ and democratic republic. ...
India. He believed that independence would be accomplished by a mixture of nonviolent protest and refusal to cooperate with the British. The fact that he was able to enlist the masses in the independence movement is to his credit. Under his leadership, the historic Non-Cooperation movement, the...
India also started various movements against the Britishers to get independence from their rule. One of them includes the Civil Disobedience Movement that started against the British salt monopoly. India could not manufacture salt and had to buy it from the British people by paying huge sums. ...
in response to news that theTreaty of Sèvreshad dismembered theOttoman Empirein 1920, the Khilāfat movement coincided with the inception of satyagraha, thus giving theillusionof unity to India’s nationalist agitation. Such unity, however, proved as chimerical as the Khilāfat movement’s hope of...
sintellectualsand youth.Gandhihad shrewdly elevated him to the presidency of theCongress Partyover the heads of some of his seniors, hoping that Nehru would drawIndia’syouth—who at that time were gravitating toward extreme leftist causes—into the mainstream of the Congress movement. Gandhi also...
in England, which he viewed as “a land of philosophers and poets, the very centre of civilization.” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India, and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of Satyagraha – the resistance of tyranny...
A very active Free Media Movement and the Editors Guild, assisted by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have intervened with the government at various times, with some success. For Tamils, most of whose ancestors who were brought to the country in the nineteenth ...
Visions and Voices, the newsletter of the National Democratic Movement, focuses mainly on Georgetown's social problems. Other newsletters deal with sports, HIV/AIDs, and current topics of interest to readers. GY Magazine aims to offer Guyanese women "a magazine of quality" with articles on gla...
Chaudhary Devi Lal was an Indian politician and government official who founded the Indian National Lok Dal political party and was instrumental in the formation of Haryana as a state separate from Punjab state in northwestern India,