India Independence

The Indian Independence Movement incorporated the efforts by Indians to expel the British, French and Portuguese from their trade-posts in the subcontinent; it involved a wide spectrum of Indian political organizations, philosophies, and rebellions between 1857 and India's emergence as an unified nation-state on August 15, 1947. Return to Revolution Main Page

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Background:

CIA World Fact Book East India Company Freedom for India Gandhi India 1900-1947 Partition of India

Primary Sources:

Gandhi's Speech to all India Congress Indian Home Rule Indian Independence Quit India Resolution