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  2. Revolutionary movement for Indian independence - Wikipedia

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    The Revolutionary movement for Indian Independence was part of the Indian independence movement comprising the actions of violent underground revolutionary factions. Groups believing in armed revolution against the ruling British fall into this category, as opposed to the generally peaceful civil disobedience movement spearheaded by Mahatma ...

  3. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    The Quit India Movement (also known as Bharat Chhodo Andolan) was a civil disobedience movement in India which commenced on 8 August 1942 in response to Gandhi's call for immediate self-rule by Indians and against sending Indians to World War II. He asked all teachers to leave their schools, and other Indians to leave their respective jobs and ...

  4. Indian National Congress - Wikipedia

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    [280] [281] In 1958 the government of India with the help of Homi J. Bhabha adopted a three-phase power production plan and the Nuclear Research Institute was established in 1954. [282] Indira Gandhi witnessed continuous nuclear testing by China from 1964 onwards, which she considered an existential threat to India.

  5. Ghadar Mutiny - Wikipedia

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    The plot originated at the onset of World War I, between the Ghadar Party in the United States, the Berlin Committee in Germany, the Indian revolutionary underground in British India and the German Foreign Office through the consulate in San Francisco. The incident derives its name from the North American Ghadar Party, whose members of the ...

  6. Category : Revolutionary movement for Indian independence

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    The category Revolutionary movement for Indian independence lists articles concerning a less-highlighted aspect of Indian independence movement - the underground revolutionary factions.The revolutionary groups were concentrated in Bengal, Punjab and Maharastra. More groups were scattered around India.

  7. Indian nationalism - Wikipedia

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    The flag adopted in 1931 by the Congress and used by the Provisional Government of Free India during the Second World War. The consolidation of the British East India Company 's rule in the Indian subcontinent during the 18th century brought about socio-economic changes which led to the rise of an Indian middle class and steadily eroded pre ...

  8. Indian Independence Act 1947 - Wikipedia

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    His Majesty's Government lost all the responsibility to the new dominions. The suzerainty of His Majesty's Government over the Indian States lapsed. All the treaties or agreements with the Indian States and the tribal areas that were in force at the passing of the act lapsed. The title of "Emperor of India" was dropped from the titles of ...

  9. History of India (1947–present) - Wikipedia

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    In February 2006, the United Progressive Alliance government launched India's largest-ever rural jobs scheme, aimed at lifting around 60 million families out of poverty. [ 109 ] U.S. President George W. Bush and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh exchange handshakes in New Delhi on 2 March 2006 vis-à-vis the India–United States Civil ...