Motto for Today: ‘Every single brick contributes to the strength of a building.’
As Everyday makes a new beginning in life, it brings new opportunities, opens new avenues, to perform and make a mark, to write a Page in history Book; We bring out a new feature for our viewers, on historical importance of Each Day !
On this day, 15 August….
1947- India declares independence from UK. The British ruled India first through East India Company and from 1858 to 1947 through direct rule. The system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858 when, after the failed war of independence of 1857, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India.
The Independence Movement that lasted 190 years, was first started in Bengal. The early part of the 20th Century saw a radical approach towards political self-rule proposed by leaders such as Lal, Bal, Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh.
The stages of the self-rule struggle from the 1920s onwards saw Congress adopt Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s policy of non-violence and civil resistance.
Activists Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh preached armed revolution to achieve self-rule. Feminists such as Sarojini Naidu and Begum Rokeya promoted the emancipation of Indian women and their participation in national politics.
Babasaheb Ambedkar championed the cause of the disadvantaged sections of Indian society within the larger self-rule movement.
The period of the Second World War saw the peak of the campaigns by the Quit India Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Army movement led by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
While celebrating the event let us also remember that ‘every single brick contributes to the strength of a building.’
A VERY HAPPY 75th ANNIVERSARY OF OUR INDEPENDENCE TO ALL !
Jai Hind – Raj Kadyan
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