Jawaharlal Nehru wrote The Discovery of India during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar Fort (1942–1945). The book provides a panoramic view of India’s history, culture and philosophy from the Indus Valley Civilization to the British Raj. It was written to help ...
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Lord Chelmsford was the Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921. His administration was responsible for the enactment of the repressive Rowlatt Act and the subsequent implementation of martial law in Punjab, which culminated in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on ...
Mahatma Gandhi had resigned from his formal membership of the Indian National Congress in 1934 to focus on village upliftment and “constructive work.” Although he remained the supreme moral guide and advisor to the Congress leadership throughout the 1940s, he ...
Rabindranath Tagore renounced his Knighthood (the title of ‘Sir’) in May 1919, shortly after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. In a stinging letter to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, he stated that “the time has come when badges of honor make our ...
By 1947, the “Direct Action Day” and subsequent violence had pushed India toward a civil war. Congress leaders like Nehru and Patel realized that a unified India with a weak center and hostile communal pockets was unsustainable. They accepted partition ...