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Freedom Movement in India-1857 Revolt-Leaders of Revolt

Introduction

The year 1857 saw the principal battle of autonomy, which is maybe one of the vital crossroads of the Indian opportunity battle. Researchers and antiquarians attribute many causes. Among these causes, one that set off the chain of episodes was the response of the Indian warriors of the East India Company’s military to the oil of the new sort of cartridge they were constrained to utilise. More important factors were the people’s dissatisfaction with the land tax imposed by the British government, the conquest of many British kingdoms and princely states, and above all, the people’s desire for liberation from foreign domination. This is where the freedom movement in India started in 1857.

What was the Independence movement in India?

The Indian Independence Movement, otherwise called the Indian Independence Movement, is a progression of exercises that have been sent off with a definitive objective of ending British rule in India. Developments of the Indian time frame. The battle for opportunity kept going long, from 1857 to 1947. The British Government, which at first belittled this association, later found that it grew out of its arrangements and expeditiously pulled out help. After the Congress became known as the ‘production line of subversion’, Lord Dufferin named it a body addressing the “minute minority” of India’s population.

The leaders of revolt:

The uprising spread throughout the region from Patna district and the borders of Rajasthan. In these areas, the main uprising communities are mainly in Jhansi, Lucknow, Bareilly, Kanpur, Gwalior and Arrah in Bihar. Below is an overview of the key pioneers who took part in the uprising from different parts of the country:

  • Mangal Pandey:  Barrackpore 
  • Nana sahib: Kanpur
  • Begum Hazrat Mahal: Lucknow 
  • Hakim Ahsanullah: Delhi
  • Bahadur shah 2nd: Delhi 
  • Rani Laxmibai: Jhansi
  • Firoz shah: Mansor
  • Tantia Tope: Gwalior 
  • Raja Pratap Singh: Kullu
  • Gajadhar Singh : Gorakhpur
  • Sevi Singh, Kadam Singh: Mathura

Revolt Movements

Home Rule Movement However, when Britain was joining the world, during the first war, public development in India took on new aspects. One of them is the Home Rule Movement. On April 28, 1916, the Home Rule League was formed with a base camp in Pune. Tilak has set out to visit the tornado across the country, which will be interesting for everyone to take part in under the Home Rule League. Annie Besant was an Irish woman who was a member of the Theosophical Society of India and played an important role in this development.

Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy: This grisly episode fanned the fire of patriot development. On April 12, 1919, General Michael O Dwyer, who had assumed control over the order of the soldiers in Punjab, the other day, disallowed all public gatherings or get-togethers.

Sadly an enormous number of everyone had collected at Jallianwala Bagh, a public nursery in Amritsar (which was stitched in by structures on all sides and had just a thin entryway for both section and exit), on the event of Baisakhi (new year festivities hung on thirteenth April consistently) and to show their disdain against the public authority approaches. Infuriated, General Dwyer terminated 1600 rounds of ammo on the groups, bringing about a rush and a horrendous slaughter of thousands of men, ladies and kids.

Khilafat Movement: The Khilafat (resistance) movement was expelled in September 1919 as a joint development to protect the Turkish Khalifa and save his kingdom from the eviction of other European powers and Great Britain. The movement was founded by brothers Ali,  Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Muhammad Ali, Shaukat Ali, and Dr M An Ansari. That’s what the Ali Brothers added to the Khilafat proclamation. Central

The Khilafat Committee began working to help patriotic development in Turkey and coordinate the Khilafat movement at home.

Civil disobedience movement: The Civil Disobedience Movement was launched in 1930 under Gandhi and became one of the most important phases of India’s struggle for an opportunity. The Simon Commission, set up in November 1927 by the British government to plan and finalise a constitution for India, and made up of people from the British Parliament, was boycotted in all social and political spheres in India as the ‘All-White’. Commission ‘. Opposition to the Simon Commission is widespread in the country. The great exhibitions took place in Calcutta on February 19, 1928, Simon’s performance in the city. On October 30, 1928, when the Simon Commission was commissioned to appear in Lahore, she was greeted by a sea of ​​dark flags and the slogans “Simon, come back.” Police Lathi accused the people, of leaving Lala Lajpat Rai (aka a lion from Punjab) seriously injured and handing over his injuries after a fortnight.

Dandi March: Gandhi was called to lead the development and decided to do so completely peacefully. His first step was to break the salt law. His favourite trek from the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad in Gujarat to Dandi (a bit set on the Gujarat Sea coast on a walk-in April 1930) brought the notorious rural development against the Salt Act. It soon became a notorious development. As a speed of development, the public authority decided to crush it. The congressional committee was abolished. Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi were imprisoned.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we would like to mention that now we know almost everything about the Freedom Movement in India – 1857. We have mentioned all the leaders of the revolt in 1857 and which city they belonged to. We have also discussed the famous revolts of the freedom movement like the Civil disobedience movement, the Dandi March, and the khilafat movement.