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Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Who was Swami Dayanand Sawaswati? Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1824–1883) was a North Indian social and religious reformer. He is also...
Swami Vivekananda
Introduction Narendra Nath Datta, better known as Swami Vivekananda, was one of nineteenth-century Bengal's finest figures. His spiritual...
The Ghadar Movement
History and Background It was an international political movement started in the early twentieth century by emigrant Indians with the...
Young Bengal Movement
History And Background The Young Bengal movement was formed by a group of radical Bengali free thinkers at Calcutta's Hindu College. The...
Pitts India Act of 1784
Background The company's licences expired in 1780, but this occurred during the American Revolutionary War crisis, postponing a British...
Regulating Act of 1773
History and Background The Act was the British Parliament's statute of governing control of Indian Colonies of British East India...
Bengal & The Battle of Plassey
The British Takeover of Bengal Bengal's revolution was precipitated by a variety of unique circumstances. In 1755, the British dispatched...
The Arrival Of French In India
French East India Company The French East India Company was founded in 1664 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French minister of finance,...
Dadabhai Naoroji
Introduction Dadabhai Naoroji, affectionately known as India's Grand Oldman, was an Indian politician, educator, and cotton dealer. Since...
Jayaprakash Narayan
Introduction Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He is best known for leading the “anti-Indira Gandhi”...
Subhash Chandra Bose
Introduction Many great heroes contributed significantly to India's national effort to achieve independence. Some people believed in...
August Offer
Start of WWII and Fall of France to Nazi Occupation At the commencement of World War II in 1939, British India entered into the war but...
The Prarthana Samaj
The Brahmo Samaj Movement's inflexions occurred in Maharashtra. Maharashtra's reformers desired a similar organisation to the Brahmo...
Raja Rammohan Roy & The Brahmo Samaj
Who was Rammohan Roy? Rammohan Roy relocated to Murshidabad in Bengal following the death of his father in 1803. In 1804, he published...
The Khilafat Movement
A new stream of nationalist ideology began to emerge during World War I. (1914-1918). This was a period when an educated younger...
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