•    When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, World War II began. In Ma...

Why did the Congress agree to Partition and how did they do so? It's understandable that the League ...

The Mountbatten Plan, also known as the 3rd June, 1947 Plan, aimed to achieve an early transfer of p...

The Government was torn between forming an Interim Government with the Congress and waiting for the ...

The contradictory nature of the reality of August 15, 1947 continues to fascinate historians and tor...

The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) revolt began on February 18th, when 1100 naval ratings from HMIS Talwar ...

The fate of members of Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army (INA), who were captured by the Br...

The end of World War II signalled a significant shift. The political stage witnessed a wide range of...

When Mohan Singh, an Indian officer in the British Indian Army, decided not to join the retreating B...

The emergence of what became known as parallel governments in some parts of the country was a signif...

How did the use of violence in 1942 fit into the nonviolence policy of Congress? For one thing, many...

The government's sudden attack elicited an immediate response from the public. As soon as word of th...