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The Simla Conference was a meeting between Lord Wavell, the viceroy of India, ... Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement in August 1942, ...
The Simla Agreement, also spelled Shimla Agreement, was a peace treaty signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla, the capital city of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. [3] It followed the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , which began after India intervened in East Pakistan as an ally of Mukti Bahini who were fighting against ...
(Simla was a hill station, which served as the headquarters for the Indian government during the summer months. At other times, the headquarters moved back to Delhi.) The conference held eight formal sessions. [33] The first two sessions on 13 October and 18 November 1913 were held in Simla.
20 September – Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that British troops leave India, in vain. 25 June – Muslim League and congress were invited to the Simla Conference; 29 November – Bajaj Auto comes into existence. All India Council for Technical Education is established
The Round Table Conference officially inaugurated by George V on November 12, 1930 in Royal Gallery House of Lords at London [2] and chaired by the Prime Minister. Ramsay MacDonald was also chairman of a subcommittee on minority representation, while for the duration his son, Malcolm MacDonald, performed liaison tasks with Lord Sankey's constitutional committee. [4]
Mira Behn (far right) with Mahatma Gandhi at the Greenfield Mill, at Darwen, Lancashire. Mirabehn's stay in India coincided with the zenith Gandhian phase of the freedom struggle. She accompanied Gandhi to the Round Table Conference in London in 1931. On their way back to India from London, Mirabehn and Gandhi visited Rolland, who gave her a ...
Tara Rani Srivastava was an Indian freedom fighter, and part of Mahatma Gandhi's Quit India Movement. [1] [2] She and her husband, Phulendu Babu, lived in the Saran district of Bihar. [3] In 1942, she and her husband were leading a march in Siwan towards the police station when he was shot by police. She nonetheless continued the march ...
The movement was one of Gandhi's first organized acts of large-scale satyagraha. [2] Gandhi's planning of the non-cooperation movement included persuading all Indians to withdraw their labour from any activity that "sustained the British government and also economy in India," [7] including British industries and educational institutions. [7]