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amristar massacre
The British instituted the anti-sedition Rowlatt Acts, which gave the government the power to intern agitators without trial. Mohandas Gandhi called for a day of work stoppages and fasting throughout India. This call, however, led to demonstrations and rioting. On April 13th, British General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on demonstrators at Amritsar in the Punjab of India. Three hundred and seventy-nine people were killed and nearly twelve-hundred were wounded. This marked a turn -
Salt March
In 1930, Gandhi used satagraha to protest the tax on salt. British laws forbade Indians to make salt. Indians could only buy salt heavily taxed by the government. In protest, Gandhi led followers on a 200-mile march from his home to the coast. Thousands of people joined the march along the way. At the coast, they broke the law by making salt from sea water. -
Quit India movement
The Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan or the August Movement) was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. Gandhi hoped to bring the British government to the negotiating table.[1] Almost the entire Congress leadership, and not merely at the national level, was put into confinement less than twenty-four hours after Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders were to spend the rest -
Indian independence
India's Independence Day is celebrated on 15 August to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation on that day in 1947. The day is a national holiday in India. All over the country, flag-hoisting ceremonies are conducted by the local administration in attendance. -
Formation of Pakistan
The Partition of India (Hindustani: हिन्दुस्तान की तक़्सीम, ہندوستان کی تقسیم Hindustān kī Taqsīm) was the partition of British India that led to the creation, on August 14, 1947 and August 15, 1947, respectively, of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (later Islamic Republic of Pakistan and People's Republic of Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of India). The partition of India included the geographical division of the Bengal province of British India into East Pak -
Gandhi Assassination
In January 1948, Gandhi himself fell victim to the violence A hindu extremist, who believed that the Mahatma had betrayed his own people, shot Gandhi. ' the light has gone ot of our lives, "mourned Nehru. "there is darkness everywhere."