The brief story behind blood , sweat & tears of India's independence struggle

 

On August 15, 1947, we got freedom from the British rule and on the 15th of this month i.e. on August 15, 76 years of our country's independence will be completed.  India with the current population of 125 crores did not get freedom from the British easily , for the freedom of the country, lakhs of Indians watered the soil of the country with their blood and it was a long story of blood, sweat and tears .  The amount of praise for the struggle, courage and passion of the true patriots who liberated this country will always be less.  Today, here we will tell you about those struggles for the independence of the country.

 India was a slave of the British from 1757 to 1947

 The British rule in India started in the year 1858 and lasted till 1947.  Earlier, from 1757 to 1857 India was under the control of British East India Company.  The British finally succumbed to the courage and sacrifice of the brave freedom fighters of the country and India got independence on August 15, 1947, after almost 200 years of slavery.

 The first spark of India's independence was raised in 1857

 The first spark of the freedom struggle from the British rule came out in the year 1857.  The rebellion of that time is famous as the Sepoy Rebellion or the Indian Rebellion of 1857.  That rebellion was led by none other than Mangal Pandey.  Apart from Mangal Pandey, Jhansi's Rani Lakshmi Bai, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Tatya Tope and Nana Sahib also fought against the British in 1857.

 Bal Gangadhar Tilak and JRD Tata started the Swadeshi movement

 Swadeshi movement started in the country around the year 1900.  At that time, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and JRD Tata started supporting indigenous goods by boycotting foreign goods by establishing Bombay Swadeshi Co-op Stores Company Limited.  Mahatma Gandhi called this movement the soul of Swaraj.

 After returning to  India from South Africa,  Mahatma Gandhi  joined the local movements of Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad.  Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act in 1919.  It was the first united movement against the British rule.

To suppress the movements, the British authorities adopted repressive measures.  In April 1919, on the day of Baisakhi, the protesters gathered in Jallianwala Bagh were fired upon.  More than 400 people were killed in this.

 The Non-Cooperation Movement began in 1920-21 in the backdrop of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Khilafat Movement.  Foreign clothes started being burnt.  Sporadic revolts from different parts of the country also continued to join it.

 The current national flag of India was designed in the year 1921

 On August 7, 1906, the Indian flag was hoisted at the Parsi Bagan Square in Kolkata.  There were 3 stripes of red, yellow and green in that flag.  In the year 1921, Pingali Venkaiah designed the first variant of our current national flag.  Saffron at the top, white in the middle with the 24-spoke Ashoka Chakra and a green stripe at the bottom, the flag was adopted as the national flag on July 22, 1947.  This tricolor was later hoisted on August 15, 1947.

 Quit India Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942

 The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Revolution, was launched by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942 at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee during World War II.  Through this movement, a demand was made to end the British rule in India.

 Meanwhile, Subhash Chandra Bose left the party over differences with the Congress leaders and reached Singapore via Germany in 1941.  Azad Hind Fauj was formed there.  This force failed to enter India in 1944 through Imphal and Kohima.  The officers got arrested.

After the Second World War, in 1945, the British started talks on independence with the Congress and the Muslim League.  The League wanted them to be considered as the representative of the Indian Muslims, but the Congress was not agreeable.  The differences between the two led to the partition of India and Pakistan.  Pakistan became an independent country on 14th August and India on 15th August midnight. 

 India did not have any national anthem at the time of independence

 There was no national anthem of India at the time of independence.  The current national anthem 'Bharat Bhagya Vidhata' was written by Rabindra Nath Tagore in the year 1911.  Whose name was later changed to 'Jana Gana Mana'.  Then after this, on January 24, 1950, the Constituent Assembly of India accepted Jana Gana Mana as a national anthem .

 India-Pakistan border line also known as Radcliffe Line

 The boundary line between India and Pakistan is also known as Radcliffe Line.  Which was demarcated by British barrister Sir Cyril Radcliffe on August 3, 1947.  Its information was officially published on August 17, 1947, two days after India's independence.

 Our country is named after the Indus river

 The name of our country was taken from the river Indus.  The Indus River is the witness of the great Indus Valley Civilization.  India got independence on the midnight of August 15, 1947.  You will be surprised to know that Korea, Congo, Bahrain and Liechtenstein also celebrate their Independence Day on 15th August itself.