The 1937 Elections in the United Provinces: Congress Rule Rehearsed
The sweep, the Pant ministry's tenancy act, the coalition talks that failed, and the Pirpur Report: the rehearsal that previewed both republic and partition.
Read MoreSimon Go Back: The Commission and the Death of Lala Lajpat Rai
Seven white commissioners for India's future, black flags at every station, and the lathi blows at Lahore that killed the Lion of Punjab and armed his avengers.
Read MoreChittagong 1930: Masterda’s Republic of Schoolboys
A schoolteacher's teenaged army seized a district's armouries on Easter's model, fought on Jalalabad hill and in the villages for three years, and paid in full.
Read MorePurushottam Das Tandon: The Hindi Heartland’s Forgotten Titan
The Rajarshi of Allahabad: thirteen years in the speaker's chair, the Hindi movement's general, and the 1950 presidency that Nehru's Congress could not house.
Read MoreGovind Ballabh Pant: The Administrator Who Built Modern UP
The Kakori defence lawyer, the lathi blows taken for Nehru, the zamindari abolition, and the home ministership: the builder the mountains gave the plain.
Read MoreChandrashekhar Azad: The Man the Police Never Took Alive
Fifteen lashes at fifteen, a decade uncaught as the revolution's commander, and the last bullet kept for the vow: the man who died as he was named, free.
Read MoreThe Nehrus of Anand Bhavan: One Family’s Grip on a Century
Motilal's renunciation, the house given to the nation, nine years of a son's jail terms, and the dynasty argument stated straight: the mansion where the republic was drafted.
Read More23 March 1931: The Evening at Lahore Jail
Hanged at evening against the rules, burned in secret by the Sutlej, mourned by a nation at Karachi's gates: the martyrdom that completed the design.
Read MoreChandra Shekhar Azad: The Revolutionary Who Died Free in Allahabad
The whipping shed vow, the HSRA's commander, the safehouses of the ravines, and the last bullet in Alfred Park: the documented legend of Azad.
Read MoreTo Make the Deaf Hear: The Assembly Bomb and the Lahore Conspiracy Case
Two harmless bombs, a shower of leaflets, a hunger strike that killed Jatin Das, and a lawless tribunal: the trial the accused conducted as an address to the nation.
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