Flashcards: Indian independence movement

Bipin Chandra Pal ; November 7, 1858 – May 20, 1932) was an Indian nationalist.

The Indian National Congress () (INC, often called Congress), is one of two major political parties in India; the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Ārzī Hukūmat-e-Āzād Hind (Hindi: आर्ज़ी हुक़ूमत-ए-आज़ाद हिन्द; Urdu: عارضی حکومت‌ِ آزاد ہند‎;), the Provisional Government of Free India, or, more simply, Free India (Azad Hind), was an Indian provisional government established in occupied Singapore in 1943 and supported by Japan and by Nazi Germany.

The Hindu–German Conspiracy was a series of plans between 1914 and 1917 by Indian nationalist groups to attempt Pan-Indian rebellion against the British Raj during World War I, formulated between the Indian revolutionary underground and exiled or self-exiled nationalists who formed, in the United States, the Ghadar Party, and in Germany, the Indian independence committee, in the decade preceding the Great War.

Khudai Khidmatgar (Pashto: خدايي خدمتگار‎) literally translates as the servants of God, represented a non-violent struggle against the British Empire by the Pashtuns (also known as Pathans, Pakhtuns or Afghans) of the North-West Frontier Province of British India (now in Pakistan).

Independence Day, is annually observed on 15 August as a national holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the British Empire on 15 August 1947.

The Indian Legion (German: Indische Legion), officially the Free India Legion (German: Legion Freies Indien) or Infantry Regiment 950 (Indian) (German: Infanterie-Regiment 950 (indisches), I.R. 950) and later the Indian Volunteer Legion of the Waffen-SS (German: Indische Freiwilligen Legion der Waffen-SS), was a military unit raised during World War II in Nazi Germany.

The Khilafat movement (1919–22) was a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government.

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer.

The Bengali renaissance or simply Bengal renaissance was a cultural, social, intellectual and artistic movement in Bengal region of the Indian Subcontinent during the period of British rule, from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century dominated by educated Bengali Hindus.

Bagha Jatin (Bāghā Jatin, lit: Tiger Jatin), born Jatindranath Mukherjee (Jotindrônāth Mukhōpaddhāē) (7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was a Bengali revolutionary philosopher against British rule.

Anushilan Samiti (Ōnūshīlōn sōmītī, lit: '"Body-building society",) was a Bengali Indian organisation that existed in the first quarter of the twentieth century, and propounded revolutionary violence as means for ending British rule in India.

The Cellular Jail, also known as Kālā Pānī (derived from Sanskrit words 'Kal' which means Time or Death and 'Pani' which means Water), was a colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

Lakshmi Sahgal () (born Lakshmi Swaminathan) (24 October 1914 – 23 July 2012) was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement, an officer of the Indian National Army, and the Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad Hind government.

Taxation of salt has occurred in India since the earliest times.

The Babbar Akali movement was a 1921 splinter group of "militant" Sikhs who broke away from the mainstream Akali movement over the latter's insistence on non-violence over gurdwara reforms.

The Rani of Jhansi Regiment was the Women's Regiment of the Indian National Army, the armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia with the aim of overthrowing the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance.

Vishnu Ganesh Pingle was an Indian revolutionary and a member of the Ghadar Party who was one of those executed in 1915 following the Lahore conspiracy trial for his role in the Ghadar conspiracy.

Vuyalavada Narasimha Reddy (Telugu: వుయ్యలవాడ నరసింహ రెడ్డి) was a freedom fighter in India's Independence struggle against the British Empire in the 19th century.

The Ghadar Mutiny (Hindustani: ग़दर राज्य-क्रान्ति, غدر ریاست - کرانتی Ġadara Rājya-krānti), also known as the Ghadar Conspiracy, was a plan to initiate a pan-Indian mutiny in the British Indian Army in February 1915 to end the British Raj in India.

Viper Island is an island of the Andaman Islands.

Azad Hind Bank was established on 5 April 1944, at Rangoon (the then headquarter of Azad Hind interim provisional Indian government supported by Imperial Japan) in Burma.

Ganga Baba,or Gangu Baba was a local hero of Indian Rebellion of 1857 who belonged to the Dalit community living around Bithoor village of Uttar Pradesh.

Jang-e-Azadi Memorial is a memorial and museum being built in Kartarpur town of Punjab, India in memory of contribution and sacrifices made by the Punjabi community in Indian independence movement.

The Ahrar Party known as the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and Majlis-E-Ahrar Islam Hind is a political party, founded in India in 29 December 1929.

Pandit Kanshi Ram was an Indian revolutionary who, along with Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna was one of the three key members in founding the Ghadar Party.

The Provisional Government of India was a provisional government-in-exile established in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 1, 1915 by Indian nationalists, during World War I with support from the Central Powers.

Sundaralinga Kudumbanar (died 1799), also known as "Veeran" Sundaralingam Kudumbanar (Tamil: வீரன் சுந்தரலிங்கம்), was an 18th-century CE general from Tamil Nadu, India.

The Simla Conference 1945 was a meeting between the Viceroy and the major political leaders of British India at Simla, India.

Bhai Bhagwan Singh Gyanee was an Indian Nationalist and a leading luminary of the Ghadar Party.

The First Indian National Army (or the First INA) was the Indian National Army as it existed between February and December 1942.

Kahan Gaye Woh Log is an Indian television series that aired on Doordarshan network's national channel, DD National in 1985.

(See also: Annexation of Portuguese India) The Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was the conflict in which the territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli passed from Portuguese rule to Indian Union rule in 1954.

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“The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously” - Pt.

The Rodda company arms heist took place on 26 August 1914 in Calcutta, British India.

The Annie Larsen was a three-masted schooner that was involved in arms shipment in the Hindu German Conspiracy during World War I.

Puli Thevar (Tamil: புலித் தேவர்) was a poligar (or palayakarar) who ruled Nerkattumseval situated in the Sankarankoil taluk, Tirunelveli Tamil Nadu.

Rani Velu Nachiyar (1730-1796), was a queen regnant of Indian Sivaganga in 1760-1790.

Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam (Urdu: مجلس احرارلأسلام‎), also known in short as Ahrar, was a radical conservative Sunni Muslim Deobandi political party in the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj (prior to the Partition of India) founded December 29, 1929 at Lahore.

Haji Hafiz Pir Syed Jamaat Ali Shah ( 1834–1951) born in Alipur Sharif Dist, Sialkot, Pakistan was a Naqshbandi Sufi Saint and mass leader of traditional Barelvi Muslims of south Asia.

Paina (Hindi: पैना, Bhojpuri: पैना) is a village and Nyaya Panchayat situated along the bank of Sarayu(Ghaghra) river in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Borsad is a city and a municipality in Anand district in the state of Gujarat, India.

("Kattabomman" redirects here. For other uses, see Kattabomman (disambiguation).) Veerapandiya Kattabomman was an 18th-century Palayakarrar and chieftain from Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India who waged a war against the British East India Company.

The Berlin Committee, later known as the Indian Independence Committee (German: Das Indische Unabhängigkeitskomitee) after 1915, was an organisation formed in Germany in 1914 during World War I by Indian students and political activists residing in the country.

Rash Behari Bose (; Bengali: রাসবিহারী বসু Rashbihari Boshu; 25 May 1886 – 21 January 1945) was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Revolution and later, the Indian National Army.

SS Maverick was an oil tanker built in 1890 for the Standard Oil of New York, later Mobil Oil.

The Hindu–German Conspiracy failed to engage popular support within India.

The interim government of India, formed on 2 September 1946 from the newly elected Constituent Assembly of India, had the task of assisting the transition of India and Pakistan from British rule to independence.

Sheikh Hissam-ud-Din was a figure in the history of South Asia and a leader of All India Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam.