India's agricultural and industrial development were hampered by colonialism. Agriculture stagnated ...

CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW NATION India gained independence at 12 a.m. on the 14th and 15th of August, ...

The Bhakti movement arose in India during the middle Ages. It was a pan-India social reform and spir...

What about Mahatma Gandhi? The unhappiness and helplessness of Gandhiji have been well-documented. H...

In 1875, a major agrarian outbreak erupted in Maharashtra's Poona and Ahmednagar districts. Land rev...

Major clashes erupted in a number of locations, the most notable of which was at Khanpur, where twen...

Background: Congress leadership and public were losing patience. The government refused to budge, cl...

•    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...