On 30 November, Simon was to reach Lucknow. Jawaharlal eagerly awaited the arrival of the commission in the United Provinces. Jawaharlal arrived in Lucknow on 25th and the tempo immediately rose. News of the death of Lajpat Rai on 18th November had already inflamed tempers throughout India, and Jawaharlal called on the youth of Lucknow […]
On seeing the increasing effect and popularity of Gandhi and Nehru, the British government had made a plan; and the plan was the visit of Simon Commission to India. The commission had been appointed to consider whether India was ready for a further instalment of constitutional reforms. To Indian nationalists of all shades of opinion,
The visit of the Prince of Wales in 1921 provided the Congress with an opportunity to show that it was a non-violent organization and could organize nationwide boycott effectively. The viceroy and secretary of state had thought of the visit as on assurance for the regime that there was enough loyalty among the people and
Jawaharlal was married in 1916 and the bride was ‘Kamla Kaul’. Kamla soon showed that she was a brave women of strong will. She joined Jawaharlal and the family in the freedom struggle.In the summer of 1920, he had taken the family up to Mussoorie, a hill station and was spending his time teaching his
On his return home from England, Jawaharlal found India politically dull. The political leaders were divided into extremists and moderates. The extremists at this time were without their leader, Tilak, who was in prison. The Congress, which was the organisation of Indian nationalists, was at this time a moderate group. Jawaharlal was a delegate to
Dissatisfied with private tuition, and in particular with Brooks, in May 1905 Motilal took his family to Britain and secured admission for his son at ‘Harrow’. Jawaharlal was now a boy of 15. He was good at his school work and impressed his teachers. Dr. Wood, Headmaster of Harrow, was fully satisfied with him in
Situated on the confluence of three rivers, the ancient religious town ‘Prayag’ is presently known as Allahabad. This beautiful town has a place called ‘Mirganj’ where at one time Motilal Nehru used to live. Here only a brilliant boy was born which was later known by the name ‘Jawahar Lal Nehru.’History of ancestorsThe Nehrus were
Since the Portuguese were the first European power to arrive in India and the last to depart, the effort to dislodge them by those whose land they conquered and occupied could not but be a long process that was fraught with bloodshed, grief, sacrifice and frustration. This process began from the day the Portuguese set
1640-1755The dynastic union holding together Spain and Portugal since 1580 was dissolved in 1640, and Portuguese independence restored (formally recognized by Spain only in 1668). The Portuguese Colonial Empire had remained an entity separate from the Spanish Colonial Empire, and remained Portuguese.In 1661 English King Charles II. married Portuguese princess Catherine de Braganca. The colonies
Indian National Army was formed under the initiative of leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose, Rashbehari Bose and others who, being imbued with the spirit of national independence, sided with the Axis Powers during the Second World war (1939-1945). The Indian National Army (INA) is also called ‘Azad Hind Fauz’. In December 1941 the Japanese defeated
The British were unable to control the situation in India which was steadily becoming worse. Famine and disorder had sapped the foundations of imperial prestige. Britain emerged from the war victorious but physically exhausted and morally sober. The general elections of 1945 returned Labour to power and Attlee, the British Prime Minister, unwilling to lose
Before you discuss the resolution, let me place before you one or two things, I want you to understand two things very clearly and to consider them from the same point of view from which I am placing them before you. I ask you to consider it from my point of view, because if you
With the outbreak of the war in 1939, Gandhi was dragged back into the political arena. He had supported the Empire in the First World War. In the Boer War, even though his moral sympathies were with the Boers who were fighting for their independence, he had offered his services to the Empire out of
The Civil Disobedience Movement led by M K Gandhi, in the year 1930 was an important milestone in the history of Indian freedom struggle. There are three distinct phases that mark the development of Indian Nationalism. In the first phase, the ideology of the moderates dominated the political scenario. This was followed by the prominence
Partition of Bengal, 1905 effected on 16 October during the viceroyalty of Lord Curzon (1899-1905), proved to be a momentous event in the history of modern Bengal. The idea of partitioning Bengal did not originate with Curzon. Bengal, which included Bihar and Orissa since 1765, was admittedly much too large for a single province of