Mahatma Gandhi first used the hunger strike as a political tool during the Ahmedabad Mill Workers’ Strike in 1918. The workers were demanding a 35% wage hike (Plague Bonus), which the mill owners refused. To strengthen the workers’ resolve and ...
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In 1939, Mahatma Gandhi intervened in the Rajkot Satyagraha, a struggle for responsible government in the princely state of Rajkot. He delegated the leadership to his trusted lieutenant, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. When the Thakore Saheb of Rajkot went back on ...
Mahatma Gandhi began a “fast unto death” in 1932 to protest British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s Communal Award. The Award proposed separate electorates for the “Depressed Classes” (Dalits). Gandhi argued that this would permanently divide Hindu society and hinder the ...
The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) Mutiny of 1946 saw Indian sailors revolting against racial discrimination and poor conditions. Fearing that the rebellion would lead to widespread chaos and jeopardize the ongoing independence negotiations, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Muhammad Ali Jinnah ...
The Government of India Act of 1919, also known as the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, introduced “Dyarchy” at the provincial level. This system divided provincial subjects into “Reserved” (controlled by the Governor) and “Transferred” (managed by Indian ministers). Lord Chelmsford, the then ...