The Indian freedom movement, spanning from 1857 to 1947, aimed to end British rule in India, beginning with the Sepoy Mutiny and evolving through various significant events and leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi's campaigns for civil disobedience. Key milestones include the formation of the Indian National Congress, the Quit India Movement, and the eventual passage of the Indian Independence Bill in 1947, leading to India's independence. The timeline highlights critical events and figures that shaped the struggle for freedom, culminating in Jawaharlal Nehru's declaration of independence on August 15, 1947.
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Indian Freedom Movement
The Indian freedom movement, spanning from 1857 to 1947, aimed to end British rule in India, beginning with the Sepoy Mutiny and evolving through various significant events and leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi's campaigns for civil disobedience. Key milestones include the formation of the Indian National Congress, the Quit India Movement, and the eventual passage of the Indian Independence Bill in 1947, leading to India's independence. The timeline highlights critical events and figures that shaped the struggle for freedom, culminating in Jawaharlal Nehru's declaration of independence on August 15, 1947.
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The Indian freedom movement, also called the Indian independence movement,
was the culmination of a sequence of historic events aimed at eliminating British
control in India. From 1857 through 1947, the movement was active. Bengal was the
birthplace of the first patriotic revolutionary movement for Indian independence. It
eventually found a home in the newly established Indian National Congress, where
important moderate politicians demanded merely their fundamental right to sit for
Indian Civil Service examinations in British India, as well as additional rights for the
people of the land. Leaders such as the Lal Bal Pal trio, Aurobindo Ghosh, and V. O
Chidambaram Pillai supported a more radical approach to political self-rule in the
early twentieth century. The important events of the Indian freedom struggle 1857 to
1947 spanned for 90 years. Hence the article aims to give a timeline of the Indian
freedom movement from 1857 to 1947 and the list of freedom movements of India.
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While the Sepoy Mutiny, led by Mangal Pandey, a British army soldier, is regarded as
the ‘First War of Independence,’ the fight gained momentum during World War |,
spearheaded by M. K. Gandhi launched his first campaign of civil disobedience or
‘Asahyog’ movement against the British in February 1919 year, following the
Champaran Satyagraha in the 1917 year and the Mahatma Gandhi Satyagraha in
the 1918 year. Then came the Quit India Movement in 1942, when India was resolved
to drive the British out of the country. On July 4, 1947, the Indian Independence Bill
was tabled in the British House of Commons and passed within a fortnight. Hence
the timeline of Indian history from 1857 to 1947. The Bill opened the ground for India's
independence from British rule, and with the split of India and Pakistan, India
became a free country. On 15 August 1947, India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal
Nehru, unfurled the Indian national flag over the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi
state.
List of Freedom Movement of India
Years | Indian independence timeline
1857 + Revolt Of 1857, Sepoy Mutiny, began in Meerut, spread to
Kanpur, Agra, Delhi & Lucknow.
1885 + The Indian National Congress was founded. On the 28th
of December, 72 delegates attended the first session in
Bombay.
+lord Randolph Churchill is nominated as_ India's
Secretary of State.
1905 + Curzon announced the partition of Bengal.Lear NEOnlne
1906
*Indian Standard Time is offi
India.
ially adopted by British
+In South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi used the word
Satyagraha to describe the nonviolent campaign.
* Agra Khan, Nawab of Dacca, Aga Khan, Nawab of
Dacca, and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk formed the Muslim
League in Dacca.
1907 + At the Surat session, Congress broke into two factions:
moderates and extremists.
* During rioting in Punjab's canal colony, Lala Lajpat Rai
and Ajit Sigh were deported to Mandalay.
1908 + Khudiram Bose was executed.
+ Tilak was sentenced to six years in jail for sedition.
1909 *The Morley-Minto Reforms, also known as the Indian
Council Act of 1909, were enacted.
19 + The capital of India was relocated from Calcutta to the
state of Delhi.
1912 + Rashbehari Bose and Sachindra Sanyal threw a bomb
at Lord Hardinge in Chandini Chowk, Delhi.Lear UNE Online
1913
+The Ghadar party was founded in San Francisco to
organise a revolt in India to overthrow British authority.
1914 + The First World War began.
1915 * Mahatma Gandhi's return from South Africa.
1916 +In Ahmedabad, Gandhiji established the Sabarmati
Ashram.
«Tilak created the Home Rule League, which has its
headquarters in Poona (the Indian home rule league of
India).
* Annie Besant founded yet another Home Rule League.
*Madan Mohan Malaviya, Lucknow portion, founded
Banaras Hindu University.
1917 +The Champaran Satyagraha was started by Mahatma
Gandhi.
+ The Secretary of State for India, Montague, says that the
British government's objective in India is to establish
responsible governance.
1918 + It was the first all-India Depressed Class convention.
+ The Rowlatt (sedition) committee presents its findings.
On February 16, 1919, the Rowlatt Bill was introduced.Lear UNE Online
1919
+ Anti-Rowlatt Satyagraha: On February 24, 1919, M. K.
Gandhi launched a campaign against the Rowlatt law
and established the Satyagraha Sabha in Bombay.
During this protest, M.K. Gandhi said, “My true belief is
that we will only be saved by suffering, not via reforms
imposed on us by the English, who use physical power
while we use spiritual force”.
+ The tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh and the Great Amritsar
Massacre
+The Government of India Act, 1919, was announced by
Montague Chelmsford.
1920 + Lala Lajpat Rai presided over the first meeting of the All
Indian Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in Bombay.
+ The Indian National Congress (INC) passes a resolution
on non-cooperation.
1921 *The Permanent Advisory Council of Princes was
established, as well as the Council of State and
Legislative Assembly.
In India, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII,
arrives. There is a lot of commotion when he arrives in
Bombay. (The agitation was non-violent.) He was met
with deserted streets.
+T K Madhavan met M. K. Gandhi at Tirunelveli to discuss
the Vaikom Satyagraha, a Hindu society's fight against
untouchability.Lear UNE Online
1922
+The non-cooperation campaign was suspended after
the Chauri Chauri incident.
+ Second Moplah revolt, Kerala's Malabar coast.
* Rabindranath Tagore founded Vishwa Bharati University.
1923 + Motilal Nehru and others founded the Swarajist party.
1925 * Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das died.
+ Revolutionaries’ Kakori Conspiracy Case
1927 + The Simon Commission is appointed.
1928 +The Nehru Report is a proposal for a new Indian
constitution.Lear UNE Online
1929
*Under Jinnah’s leadership, the All Parties Muslim
Conference develops the "fourteen points.”
*To protest the Public Safety Bill, Bhagat Singh and
Batukeshwar Dutt detonate a bomb in the Central
Legislative Assembly.
+ After a 64-day fast, Jatin Das dies in Jain.
+ The statement by Lord Irwin that the objective of British
policy in India was to give dominion status.
+ Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress session in Lahore endorses
the objective of total independence (Poorna Swaraj) for
India.
1930
*On the banks of the Ravi in Lahore, Jawaharlal Nehru
hoists the Indian tricolour.
+ The first American Independence Day is celebrated.
+ With his epic Dandi march, the INC Working Committee
met in Sabarmati and passed the Civil Disobedience
Movement.
*With his historic Dandi march, Mahatma Gandhi
launches the Civil Disobedience Movement.
+ In London, the first round table discussion to discuss the
Simon Commission's report on India’s future
constitutional structure begins.Lear UNE Online
1931
+The Gandhi-Irwin deal has been signed. The civil
disobedience effort has been put on hold.
*Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev, and Raj Guru were the
assassins (in Lahore Case).
+ The second Round Table meeting has begun. To attend,
Mahatma Gandhi travels to London.
1932
*Ramsay Mac Donald, the British Prime Minister,
introduces the Communal Awards, which grant Harijans.
distinct electorates in exchange for reserved seats.
+ Gandhi's death-defying fast.
+The Harijans are given reserved seats instead of a
distinct electorate under the Poona agreement.
1935
+ The Government of India Act has been passed
1937
+ Elections were conducted in India under the 1935 Act.
+ In seven provinces, the Indian National Congress elects
ministers.
1938
+ The Indian National Congress held its Haripura session.
Subhash Chandra Bose was elected president of
Congress.Lear NEOnlne
1939
+ The Indian National Congress had a session at Tripuri.
+The Indian National Congress's president, Subhas
Chandra Bose, resigns.
+The Second World War starts. The Viceroy proclaims
that India is at war as well.
+ The provinces’ Congress ministries quit in protest of the
British government's war policies.
+The Muslim League celebrates the day when the
congress ministers resigned as Deliverance Day.
1940
+The Muslim League's Lahore assembly passes the
Pakistan Resolution.
+ The August offer was announced by Viceroy Linlithgow.
+ Individual Satyagraha is launched by Congress.
1941
+ Rabindranath Tagore died.
+ Subhas Chandra Bose flees to Germany from India.Lear UNE Online
1942
+ The Cripps Mission is announced by Churchill.
+ The suggestions of the Cripps mission are rejected by
Congress.
+The AICC’s Bombay session passed the Quit India
resolution, which sparked a historic civil disobedience
movement across India.
* Indira Nehru, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, marries
Feroze Gandhi, a Parsi lawyer and rebel, despite her
father's wishes.
+ British troops arrest Indian politician Mohandas Gandhi
in Bombay.
+ Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi, a newlywed couple,
are imprisoned for their involvement in the Quit India
movement.
+ 40,000 people died in Bombay as a result of the
hurricane and floods.
* During World War Il, the Indian National Army was an
armed organisation established by Indian nationalists
(Mohan Singh) in Southeast Asia.Lear UNE Online
1943
+ In Singapore, Subhas Chandra Bose declares the
creation of the "Provisional Government of Free India”
over the leadership of the Indian National Congress.
+The Muslim League's Karachi session adopts the motto
"Divide and Quit.”
+ The Port of Kolkata is attacked by the Japanese
*Kushal Konwar, President of the Indian National
Congress in Golaghat, was the first victim of the Quit
India Movement.
1944 + Wavell convenes seminars at Simla in an attempt to
assemble an executive council of Indian political
leaders.
1946 + British and Indian air force units revolted in the Royal Air
Force in 1946.
*The Cabinet Mission was announced by British Prime
Minister Attlee.
* Nehru is invited to form an interim administration by
Wavell.
+ The Constituent Assembly's First Session.
+ Nehru is chosen as the Congress Party's leader.
+ For the first time, India's Constituent Assembly meets.Lear UNE Online
1947
* The British administration would depart India by June
1948, according to British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
+ The final British viceroy and governor-general of India,
Lord Mountbatten, is sworn in.
+The Mountbatten Plan for India’s division was
announced.
+ The British parliament passed the Indian Independence
Bill on July 18, 1947, after it was tabled in the House of
Commons.
+In India and Pakistan, a war breaks out. Forces in
Kashmir that are administered by the Kashmir
government
+ Junagadh became a part of the Dominion of India.
+ Air India is expanding internationally.
+ Indians were granted independence.
+ Jawaharlal Nehru becomes India’s first Prime Minister,
and the Indian tricolour is unfurled on the Red Fort's
walls, symbolically signalling the end of British colonial
authority,Lear UNE Online
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