Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, while heading to a prayer meeting at Birla House in New Delhi. He was shot at close range by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu nationalist who disagreed with Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence and ...
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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 ...
On August 15, 1947, while the rest of India celebrated independence, Mahatma Gandhi was in Kolkata (then Calcutta). He was on a mission to quell the horrific communal riots that had broken out following the announcement of partition. Instead of ...
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 ...
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 ...