Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel,commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,was an Indian independence nationalist and barrister who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress,who played a significant role in the country's struggle for independence and its political integration. In India and elsewhere,he was often called Sardar,meaning "Chief" in Hindi,Urdu,Bengali and Persian. He acted as the Home Minister during the political integration of India and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse was a Hindu nationalist who on 30 January 1948 assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. Godse was a member of the political party,the Hindu Mahasabha;and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organisation;and a populariser of the work of his mentor Vinayak Damodar Savarkar,who had created the ideology of Hindutva.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari BR,popularly known as Rajaji or C.R.,also known as Mootharignar Rajaji,was an Indian statesman,writer,lawyer,and independence activist. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India,as when India became a republic in 1950 the office was abolished. He was also the only Indian-born Governor-General,as all previous holders of the post were British nationals. He also served as leader of the Indian National Congress,Premier of the Madras Presidency,Governor of West Bengal,Minister for Home Affairs of the Indian Union and Chief Minister of Madras state. Rajagopalachari founded the Swatantra Party and was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award,the Bharat Ratna. He vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament. During his lifetime,he also acquired the nickname 'Mango of Salem'.
Abdul Ghaffār Khān,also known as Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan was a Pashtun independence activist,and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad;11 November 1888 –22 February 1958) was an Indian independence activist,writer and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Following India's independence,he became the First Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad;the word Maulana is an honorific meaning 'Our Master' and he had adopted Azad (Free) as his pen name. His contribution to establishing the education foundation in India is recognised by celebrating his birthday as National Education Day across India.
Devdas Mohandas Gandhi was the fourth and youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi. He was born in the Colony of Natal and came to India with his parents as a grown man. He became active in his father's movement,spending many terms in jail. He also became a prominent journalist,serving as editor of Hindustan Times. He was also the first pracharak of the Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha (DBHPS),established by Mohandas Gandhi in Tamil Nadu in 1918. The purpose of the Sabha was to propagate Hindi in southern India.
Gopalkrishna Devadas Gandhi is a former administrator and diplomat who served as the 22nd Governor of West Bengal serving from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji). As a former IAS officer he served as Secretary to the President of India and as High Commissioner to South Africa and Sri Lanka,among other administrative and diplomatic posts. He was the United Progressive Alliance nominee for Vice President of India 2017 elections and lost with 244 votes against NDA candidate Venkaiah Naidu,who got 516 votes.
The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress's increasingly socialist and statist outlook.
Jairam Ramesh is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011,Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However,in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012,he was divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.
The Dominion of India,officially the Union of India,was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations existing between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. Until its independence,India had been ruled as an informal empire by the United Kingdom. The empire,also called the British Raj and sometimes the British Indian Empire,consisted of regions,collectively called British India,that were directly administered by the British government,and regions,called the princely states,that were ruled by Indian rulers under a system of paramountcy. The Dominion of India was formalised by the passage of the Indian Independence Act 1947,which also formalised an independent Dominion of Pakistan—comprising the regions of British India that are today Pakistan and Bangladesh. The Dominion of India remained "India" in common parlance but was geographically reduced. Under the Act,the British government relinquished all responsibility for administering its former territories. The government also revoked its treaty rights with the rulers of the princely states and advised them to join in a political union with India or Pakistan. Accordingly,the British monarch's regnal title,"Emperor of India," was abandoned.
The Indian National Congress was established when 72 representatives from all over the country met at Bombay in 1885. Prominent delegates included Dadabhai Naoroji,Surendranath Banerjee,Badruddin Tyabji,Pherozeshah Mehta,W. C. Banerjee,S. Ramaswami Mudaliar,S. Subramania Iyer,and Romesh Chunder Dutt. The Englishman Allan Octavian Hume,a former British civil servant,was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.
Khudai Khidmatgar was a predominantly Pashtun nonviolent resistance movement known for its activism against the British Raj in colonial India;it was based in the country's North-West Frontier Province.
Deepender Singh Hooda is an Indian politician and four-term MP from the Indian National Congress,who is the current Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha representing Haryana. He also served three terms as Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha from Rohtak (2005–2019). He is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee,the highest decision making body of the Indian National Congress.
Kumaraswami Kamaraj,popularly known as Kamarajar was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Madras from 13 April 1954 to 2 October 1963. He also served as the president of the Indian National Congress between 1964–1967 and was responsible for the elevation of Lal Bahadur Shastri and later Indira Gandhi to the position of Prime Minister of India,because of which he was widely acknowledged as the "Kingmaker" in Indian politics during the 1960s. Later,he was the founder and president of the Indian National Congress (O).
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari Narasimhan (1909–1989) was an Indian politician,freedom-fighter and member of the Indian Parliament from 1952 to 1962. He was the son of Indian statesman Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.
Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai (1887–1951) also called Darbar Gopaldas Desai was a prince who ascended the throne of the State of Dhasa in Saurashtra and a noted Gandhian political and social activist. He is remembered as the first prince in India who gave up his principality to become a freedom fighter against the British Raj.
The Vedaranyam March was a framework of the nonviolent civil disobedience movement in British India. Modeled on the lines of Dandi March,which was led by Mahatma Gandhi on the western coast of India the month before,it was organised to protest the salt tax imposed by the British Raj in the colonial India.
Samvidhaan:The Making of the Constitution of India is a ten-part television mini-series based on the making of the Constitution of India,directed by Shyam Benegal. The show premiered on 2 March 2014 on Rajya Sabha TV,with an episode scheduled to air every Sunday morning. The series can be viewed on YouTube on Rajya Sabha TV's channel.
The Gandhi family is the family of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi;Mahatma meaning "high souled" or "venerable" in Sanskrit;the particular term 'Mahatma' was accorded Mohandas Gandhi for the first time while he was still in South Africa,and not commonly heard as titular for any other civil figure even of similarly rarefied stature or living or posthumous presence.
The Statue of Mahatma Gandhi is a 16-foot (4.9 m) tall bronze statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi located in the precincts of the Parliament House of India in New Delhi. Designed by Ram V. Sutar,it was inaugurated in 1993,and has become iconic as a site for protest by members of the Indian Parliament.
