Listen to me Singing!: India Special

India Special

Kasam Tumko Watan Walo Kabhi Maayus Mat Hona
Manana Jashn Aazadi Na Mere Waste Rona
Nigaahein Maut Se Bhi Hum Milane Se Nahin Darrte
Desh Mere Desh Mere Meri Jaan Hai Tu
Desh Mere Desh Mere Meri Jaan Hai Tu

Vande Mataram!

Major events that resulted in India's Independence are as follows:

*The Partition of Bengal in 1905 by the British Government, based on religions and languages.
*The British Government's efforts to enlist the support of the Muslims against the Hindus.
*The spread of the spirit of Hindu-Muslim unity–Allah-O-Akbar and Vande Mataram.
*The Swadeshi Movement–an economic boycott of foreign goods in support of domestic products.
*Repressive measures by the British Government
*The impact of different organizations such as Brahmo Samaj founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Arya Samaj by Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Prarthana Samaj (Bombay), Swarajya Party, and the Theosophical Society started by Annie Besant.
*Formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885.
*Mahatma Gandhi's arrival from South Africa and the rise of the Indian National Congress as an expression of the revolt of the Indian people against alien rule.
*World Wars I and II, which weakened the power of the British rulers.
*Mahatma's Swadeshi Movement starting from Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act.
*The Jalianwala Bagh massacre on 13 April 1919, where over 400 innocent and unarmed people were killed, and the imposition of martial law in Punjab.
*The pronouncement of complete independence at the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress in 1929, which caused the awakening of a new spirit in the nation.
*Mahatma's successful civil disobedience movement all over the country against the Salt Laws. His Salt March at Dandi, Gujarat, in December 1930 spread to various parts of the country.
*The "Quit India" movement in 1942 and its nationwide impact.

What Others Said About India?

*We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!" –Albert Einstein*If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!" –French scholar Romaine Rolland

*India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!" –Mark Twain

*So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked." –Mark Twain

*She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim … her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!" — Sylvia Levi

*India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!" — Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

Some Moments In Indian History

Pandit Nehru speaks to new nation

Mahatma Ghandhiji Addressing people

Nehru and Gandhi at meeting

Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.