Notes and Study material for Exams
POST INDEPENDENT ERA The era after India’s independence from colonial rule starts with its partition into two halves – India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten became the first Governor General of free India and M.A. Jinnah that of Pakistan. The transition was violent, with blood curling massacres all over the country, ample proof to the historic … Read more
Gandhiji was arrested in 1922 and sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment. The result was the spread of disintegration, disorganization and demoralization in the nationalist ranks. After a defeat of their resolution of ‘either mending or ending’ in the Congress, CR Das and Motilal Nehru resigned and formed the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party in December 1922. … Read more
Famous Personalities India in the Eighteenth Century Administrative Organization of the British Growth of Communalism World War I and Indian Nationalism The Home Rule Movement Lucknow Pact (1916) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms and Rowalt act Gandhi’s early career and activism Non Co-operation and Khilafat Movement Peasant Movements The Working Class Movements Struggles for Gurudwara Reform and Temple … Read more
V.P. Singh was the 7th Prime Minister of India, serving from 1989 to 1990. He was a member of the Janata Dal party and was the first Prime Minister from a non-Congress party to complete a full term in office. Singh was born in 1931 in a village in Uttar Pradesh. He studied at the … Read more
Narasimha Rao Government Introduction P. V. Narasimha Rao was the 10th Prime Minister of India, serving from 1991 to 1996. He was the first Prime Minister from the Indian National Congress (INC) to be elected without the support of the Gandhi family. Rao was a key figure in the economic liberalization of India, which began … Read more