History of our Independence in short

India was the land of bountiful of natural resources, the land of rivers and the land of farmers. The land that was so prosperous and wealthy that the country has seen a lot of invasions throughout the ages. Like The Aryans in 1500s BCE, but seeing our superior culture they decided to stay with the Dravidian. Then the Persians by Cyrus invaded around 550 BCE. Then in 327 BCE, the Greeks did Alexander the Great. Then fast forward to 1001 AD, Mahmud Ghazni invaded India. 1221 AD, India was invaded by Genghis Khan. 1526 AD, Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi and founded the Mughal dynasty. And around 1600 AD the British came to India by the name of East India Company. In 1757 AD, Battle of Plassey, establishment of British political rule in India by the hands of Lord Clive finally took place.

This marked the beginning of the British rule in India that lasted for 200 years.

But, in the year 1857 we find records of earliest protest against the British rule in India. It was in Bengal, Barackpore, near Kolkata. This was the Sepoy Mutiny which was an unsuccessful movement, but triggered a chain of events that ultimately led to the united identity of a nation for the first time in India. 

The first organized movement against British government was the Non-cooperation Movement, 1^st August 1920, by the Indian National Congress, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. It involved surrender of all titles, honourary offices and boycotting all the British courts, offices, and all kind of government run education institutions.

The Civil Disobedience Movement, 1930, occurred under the leadership of Gandhiji followed by the Dandi March.  

The Individual Satyagraha, 1940, led by Mahatma Gandhi, the idea was to express people’s feelings that they was not interested in the war and that they made no distinction between Nazism and the double autocracy that rule India. Acharya Vinoba Bhave was the first Satyagrahi, Jawaharlal Nehru was the second Satyagrahi and both were imprisoned.

Quit India Movement in 1942 to 1944 was a result of Gandhiji’s protest against the return of Sir, Stafford Cripps. He wanted to negotiate with the British government for the independence of India through this movement. The famous slogan was given here “Do or Die”.

The Indian Independence Act 1947 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into two new independent dominations of India and Pakistan (East and West).

The signing of the independence act came at a high price of countless lives, resettlement from their home lands and suffering for many persons. Still we could say that we are “Independent” and we live in Independent India.

On the day of 15th of August every year we hoist our national flag and proudly sing our national anthem to remember, salute and honour the sacrifices made by our national heroes to bring us the sense of freedom that we live, breadth and enjoy today.

Come, let’s together hoist our National Flag, salute the flag and sing the National Anthem and be proud Indians.      

“Jai Hind”.

@ Kanad Bhattacharya

GOPSAI AVINANDAN SANGHA

Editor