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The flags of British India were varied, and the British Empire used several different banners during the period of its rule in the Indian subcontinent. [5] [2] [6] Flags with the Star of India emblem in their design are often referred to as the Star of India flag, and were used to represent India itself [7] and high offices in the government of India.
The Kolkata session of the Indian National Congress asked the British government to accord India dominion status by December 1929, or face a countrywide civil disobedience movement. Amid rising discontent and increasingly violent regional movements, a call for complete sovereignty and an end to British rule found greater support from the people.
A Princely State, also called a Native State or an Indian State, was a British vassal state in India with an indigenous nominal Indian ruler, subject to a subsidiary alliance. [145] There were 565 princely states when India and Pakistan became independent from Britain in August 1947.
By the early 1920s, the Indian National Congress had become the principal leader of Indian nationalism. [12] Led by Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress was to lead India to independence from the United Kingdom, [d] [13] [e] [14] and powerfully influence other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.
The Government of India has designated official national symbols that represent the Republic of India. These symbols serve as the representation of the identity of the country. [ 1 ] When India obtained independence from the British Raj on 15 August 1947, the tricolour flag officially became the first national symbol of the Dominion of India ...
Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876/8 [1] [2] – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter, known for designing the initial version of the Indian National Flag. [3] Apart from his role in the independence movement, Venkayya was a lecturer, author, geologist, educationalist, agriculturist, and a polyglot.
Some men enjoyed the ability to unconstrainedly flex their masculinity in a foreign land, and British families in India stratified based on how white (non-Indian) they were and how frequently they were able to visit Britain. [18] By 1921, at the peak of the British Empire, 20,000 civil and military personnel had established themselves in India. [1]
[46] [44] Bose's effort, however, was short lived; after the reverses of 1944, the reinforced British Indian Army in 1945 first halted and then reversed the Japanese U Go offensive, beginning the successful part of the Burma Campaign. Bose's Indian National Army surrendered with the recapture of Singapore; Bose died in a plane crash soon ...