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Remembering Umakant Kadia, first martyr of Quit India Movement: Read how the young RSS member refused to bow down in front of British tyranny...

OpIndia Staff -
Years later, a memorial was built in the Khadia area, in Ahmedabad, where the incident took place. The memorial says that Umakant Motiram Kadia attained martyrdom here.
Political History of India

Mangal Pandey turned ‘greased cartridge’ into a weapon of 1857 revolt; scared British hanged the revolutionary 10 days early: The spark from Barrackpore shook...

श्रवण शुक्ल -
The British feared that Mangal Pandey’s spark would ignite a nationwide uprising, so they advanced his execution by 10 days, desperate to snuff out the rebellion before it spread.
Political History of India

From fear of nationalist undercurrent to canards of an impending ‘Japanese bombing’: Read the forgotten British suppression of Kumbh festival

Rukma Rathore -
The Britishers claimed that the Japanese could bomb the Kumbh location and prohibited the religious gathering,
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1921 Munshiganj massacre: How British forces mercilessly killed over 700 peacefully protesting farmers in Raebareli

Rukma Rathore -
The massacre took place a few years after the Jallianwala Bagh incident and reportedly resulted in even more bloodshed.
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Rani Chennamma of Kittur led a armed revolt against the British decades before 1857: Read about her valour and honour in face of abject...

Rukma Rathore -
The queen emerged victorious in the first battle against the Britishers, but she was captured in the subsequent fight.
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The Chapekar Brothers: The unsung revolutionaries who assassinated Englishman Walter Rand in 1897 for his repressive plague control measures

Rukma Rathore -
The three Chapekar brothers shot Walter Rand 127 years ago on 22nd June 1897 and he breathed his last on 3rd July 1897.
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This day in history: The violent saga of Vellore Mutiny, when hundreds of Indian soldiers rebelled against the East India Company

Paurush Gupta -
Vellore Mutiny unfolded 51 years before 'The First War of Independence 1857'. Around 200 British soldiers were killed in this brief but fierce battle.

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