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Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement observed :”Twelve centuries ago Sankaracharya was the only great personality, who not only spoke of the purity of our religion, not only uttered in words that this religion was our strength and wealth, not ...
A Passage to India. A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library [2] and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for ...
Gopika I. S. of The Times of India gave 3/5 stars and wrote, "The message of the film is clear but it goes to deliver it in such a roundabout way that one would feel like they watched two different films". Arjun Ramachandran of The South First gave 3/5 stars and wrote, "Malayalee From India is a good political satire blended with humour".
Background. In August 1942, Indian politician and social activist, Mahatma Gandhi, was a central figure to the Quit India campaign. He was the leader of the Indian National Congress, and the Quit India campaign was a national protest movement based on "satyagraha" (truthful request) that called for an end to British colonial rule in India and the establishment of Indian sovereignty through ...
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda ; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and the father of modern Indian nationalism who is credited with raising interfaith ...
July, 1935. Headquarters. India. Key people. Swaminathan Sadanand. Free Press of India was an Indian nationalist-supporting news agency founded in the 1920s by Swaminathan Sadanand, during the period of the British Raj. It was the first news agency owned and managed by Indians. Beset by dubious business acumen from the outset, and beholden to ...
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The Free India Society was a youth organization of Indian students in England, committed to obtaining the independence of India from British rule. Initially an intellectual group, it became a revolutionary outfit under its founding leader, Bhikaji Cama. This organization also released a paper called Free India Society to propagate revolutionary ...