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 ...
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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 ...
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed for their involvement in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, specifically the assassination of British police officer John Saunders. They carried out the killing to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. Their execution on ...
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 ...