The Communist Party of India (CPI) was formally established on Indian soil in 1921 (though its first foundation occurred in Tashkent in 1920). Influenced by the Russian Revolution, leaders like M.N. Roy aimed to organize workers and peasants for a ...
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The partition of India was carried out under the Mountbatten Plan, also known as the June 3 Plan. Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, proposed the division of British India into two independent dominions—India and Pakistan. The plan included the partition ...
The Cripps Mission failed primarily because it offered “Dominion Status” with the right to secede for provinces, which the Congress viewed as a blueprint for the “Balkanization” of India. Sir Stafford Cripps adopted a rigid “take-it-or-leave-it” stance, refusing to grant ...
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 Salt Satyagraha began on March 12, 1930, with Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Dandi March. Gandhi and 78 followers walked from Sabarmati Ashram to the coastal village of Dandi to defy the British salt monopoly. By picking up a handful of ...