Indian independence movement
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The Indian independence movement was a series of political efforts from the mid-1880s to 1947 that took place in the Indian subcontinent with the aim of ending British colonial rule.
Robert Clive with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey. Mir Jafar's betrayal of the Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah of Bengal in Plassey made the battle one of the main factors of British supremacy in the sub-continent.
The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun by Henry Singleton, c. 1800. After the defeat of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, most of South India was now either under the company's direct rule, or under its indirect political control.
Bahadur Shah Zafar was declared the "Emperor of Hindustan" during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Birsa Munda, leader of Munda rebellion (Ulgulan)
Bhagat Singh
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Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death
Indian independence movement
…Mahatma Gandhi managed to have over 90,000 political prisoners released under this pact. However, his appeal to terminate the death sentences of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru was not accepted by the British. For the next few years, Congress and the government negotiated until the Government…
Singh in 1929
Photo of Singh (back row, fourth from right) in the Lahore College Drama Club (1924)
Singh's photo during his first arrest
Hunger strike poster of Bhagat Singh and Batukeshswar Dutt