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The British government responded quickly to the Quit India speech, and within hours after Gandhi's speech arrested Gandhi and all the members of the Congress Working Committee. [162] His countrymen retaliated the arrests by damaging or burning down hundreds of government owned railway stations, police stations, and cutting down telegraph wires ...
In August 1942, Indian politician and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi, was a central figure to the Quit India campaign. [3] He was the leader of the Indian National Congress, [4] and the Quit India campaign was a national protest movement based on "satyagraha" (truthful request) [1] that called for an end to British colonial rule in India and the establishment of Indian sovereignty, [5 ...
Zamin headed the Urdu survey committee and produced the report, Urdu Zaban-o-Adab [14].This book summarizes Urdu linguistics and is considered more comprehensive than Sir George Greison's 'Linguistic Survey of India'. [15] Mahatma Gandhi visited Allahabad University on 17th November, 1928 and praised the work being done by Zamin and the Academy ...
Gowalia Tank Maidan, officially renamed August Kranti Maidan, [1] is a park in Grant Road West, in South Mumbai, in which Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on 8 August 1942. It decreed that unless the British left India immediately, mass agitations would take place.
On January 26, 1931, Gandhi and other Congress leaders were freed from prison. The resulting discussions culminated in the Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931) under which the Congress agreed to participate in a Second Round Table Conference. Although MacDonald was still Prime Minister of Britain, he was by this time heading a coalition Government (the ...
[a] [21] During his time in Berlin, Husain collaborated with Alfred Ehrenreich to translate into German thirty-three of Gandhi's speeches which were published in 1924 as Die Botschaft des Mahatma Gandhi. [22] Husain got published the Diwan-e-Ghalib in 1925 and the Diwan-i-Shaida, a collection of poetry by Hakim Ajmal Khan in 1926.
The light has gone out of our lives is a speech that was delivered ex tempore by Jawaharlal Nehru, [1] the first Prime Minister of India, on January 30, 1948, following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi earlier that evening. It is often cited as one of the greatest speeches in history. [1] [2] [3]
Sayyid Mawlānā Azad Union Minister of Education In office 15 August 1947 – 22 February 1958 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Preceded by Office Established Succeeded by K. L. Shrimali Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha In office 21 February 1952 – 22 February 1958 Constituency Rampur, Uttar Pradesh In office 14 March 1957 – 22 February 1958 Constituency Gurgaon, Punjab (present-day Haryana ...