Day: January 29, 2015

The Nehru Report, Delhi Proposal and Jinnah’s Fourteen Demands Nehru report on constitutional framework for the country(August,1928): While the Simon Commission was carrying on its work in isolation from Indian public opinion, the leading Indian political parties were trying to forge a common political programme. The Nehru Report in August 1928 was a memorandum outlining […]

The Home Rule Movement The Home Rule Movement was the Indian response to the First World War in a less charged but a more effective way than the response of Indians living abroad which took the form of the Ghadar adventure. The All India Home Rule League was a national political organization founded in 1916 […]

RISE OF GANDHI AND EARLY ACTIVISM

INA Trial, RIN Mutiny and The Cabinet Mission Plan Situation after Second World War: Tortuous negotiations involving the Government, Congress and Muslim League, increasingly accompanied by communal violence and culminating in freedom and the partition. Sporadic, localised and often extremely militant and united mass action by workers, peasants and states’ peoples which took the form […]

AUGUST OFFER, INDIVIDUAL SATYAGRAHA AND CRIPPS MISSION (1939-1942)