Ram Prasad Bismil was the mastermind behind the Kakori Train Robbery on August 9, 1925. As a leader of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA), he organized the heist near Lucknow to fund revolutionary activities. Bismil was an exceptional poet and ...
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The Government of India Act of 1935 was the first legislative measure to propose an “All India Federation” consisting of British Indian provinces and princely states. Although the federal part was never fully implemented due to the opposition of princely ...
Lord Mountbatten served as the last Viceroy of British India and became the first Governor-General of the independent Dominion of India on August 15, 1947. He was requested by Indian leaders to stay in office to oversee the transition of ...
The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed to end the first phase of the Civil Disobedience Movement. Under this pact, the Congress agreed to suspend the movement and participate in the Second Round Table Conference. In return, the British ...
The Rowlatt Act, officially the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, authorized the British government to detain political activists without trial for up to two years. Popularly called the “Black Law,” it aimed to suppress the rising tide of ...