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Founded in 1885, the Indian National Congress was one of the first organisational efforts geared towards the goal of Indian independence.
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In the now legendary Sepoy mutiny, in 1857 soldiers rebelled against the East India Company rule in the first ever large scale attmept to get rid of the British.
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In 1905, Lord Curzon ordered the partition of the province of Bengal, which was seen as a perfect example of the the Brits' divide and rule policy. The division caused widespread agitations across India.
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Mahatama Gandhi's return from South Africa to India in 1915 triggered nationwide campaigns to achieve Swaraj.
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On April 13, 1919, the country collectively gasped with horror as General R E H Dyer ordered the massacre of over 1000 unarmed men, women and children gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh to celebrate Baisakhi.
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The Non Cooperation movement, from September 1920 through 1922, was a movement started by Mahatma Gandhi to abolish the use of British goods.
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The 1925 Kakori train robbery, one of the most daring attacks by Indian revolutionaries against the British Raj, was conceived by Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan. The idea was to loot a train for money to carry out their revolutionary activities against the British.
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One of the seminal moments of the struggle for independence, the bombing of the Parliament on April 8, 1929 by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt strenghthened the cause.
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The pathbreaking Dandi March on March 12, 1930, led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was one of his first experiments with 'Satyagraha'-- non violent protest -- against British Raj's salt laws.
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The Quit India movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence.
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