August 15, 2021 will mark India’s 75th Independence Day . The Indian Independence movement began during war I and was led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. On 15 Assumption , 1947, India got its freedom, ending an almost 200-year British rule. Here are some iconic pictures from the years India was fighting for its freedom.
In this August 10, 1942, picture, demonstrators are lying on the bottom to avoid clouds of tear gas released by the police once they refused to disperse after protesting against the arrest of Gandhi and other National Congress leaders. (Image Credits: News 18)
The mutiny of 1857 was a revolution of sorts. The image shows a scene from the battle at Cawnpore (Kanpur) where a whole British garrison, including women and youngsters , was exhausted . (Image Credits: News 18)
In this picture, Congress launches the ‘Quit India’ movement. Demonstrations in Madras calling for a boycott of the Simon Commission. The demonstrators are carrying black banners with the slogan ‘Simon Go Back’. (Image Credits: News 18)
In 1930, here we see Gandhi , and politician Sarojini Naidu, with a garland, during the Salt March protesting against the govt monopoly on salt production. (Image Credits: News 18)
September 1, 1930: An Indian volunteer lies ahead of a cartload of imported British clothes being taken to be sold in Bombay, following Gandhi’s method of peaceful protest. Dissension by Indian nationalists seeking dominion status for India had reached it’s peak by 1930. (Image Credits: News 18)
On February 20 1947, British Prime Minister Attlee announced that India would be granted freedom by June 1948 to the newest . Attlee also said that the longer term of Princely States would be decided after the date of ultimate transfer is set . (Image Credits: AP Photos)
In this photo of September 1947, many Muslim refugees are often seen crowding on top of a train leaving New Delhi for Pakistan. After Britain ended its colonial rule over the Indian subcontinent, two independent nations were created in its place – the secular, Hindu-majority nation of India, and therefore the Islamic republic of Pakistan. The division, widely mentioned as Partition, sparked massive rioting that killed up to 1 million, while another 15 million fled their homes in one among the world’s largest-ever human migrations. (Image Credits: AP Photos)
On the midnight of August 14 and Assumption 1947, India and Pakistan came into existence. By Assumption , India’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabbhai Patel’s efforts had brought over 560 princely states within the Indian Union with the exceptions of Junagarh, Hyderabad and Jammu and Kashmir. (Image Credits: AFP)
Prime Minister Nehru looks down on the gang during India’s Independence Day celebrations at Red Fort, New Delhi, India, 15 August 1947. (Image Credits: AP)
This photo shows the new Indian flag, a horizontal tricolour of saffron, white and green, flying from the minaret battlements of the historic Red Fort on 16 August 1947, after being hoisted by Pandit Nehru , the primary prime minister of India. (Image Credits: AP)