Indian independence movement
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The Indian independence movement was a series of political efforts from 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)
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principa
Portrait, 1957
Anand Bhawan the Nehru family home in Allahabad
Jawaharlal Nehru as a child with his mother Swarup Rani and father Motilal Nehru, 1894.jpg
Nehru and Kamala Kaul at their wedding in Delhi, 1916