Maulana Abul Kalam Azad served as the President of the Indian National Congress for six consecutive years from 1940 to 1946. This was the longest continuous tenure in the pre-independence era. His presidency coincided with critical events like the Quit ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Hyderabad was integrated into India through “Operation Polo” in September 1948. The Nizam of Hyderabad initially refused to join India, hoping for independence or an alliance with Pakistan. Due to internal unrest and the rise of the radical Razakars, the ...
James Grant Duff, a British soldier and historian who served as the resident at Satara, used this famous metaphor in his book “A History of the Mahrattas.” He viewed the emergence of the Maratha power as an abrupt, explosive event ...