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1947: Road to Indian Independence

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  • Ep 13: Series finale - The story of Azaadi

    August 14, 2022 · 15 min

    The road to Indian Independence was long. It was tough. It was marked by moments of political high, interspersed with long periods of political low. But the freedom struggle eventually succeeded, with the British leaving the land that they…

  • Ep 12: A Second Mutiny, a final challenge

    August 14, 2022 · 29 min

    The war had ended. India was inching towards independence, but a clear political roadmap and timeline was missing. The Muslim League had stepped up its agitation for Pakistan. It was a turbulent, uncertain time. And then, in 1946, the…

  • Ep 11: Netaji: The life and politics of Subhash Bose

    August 12, 2022 · 40 min

    Even as a war broke out in Europe, a clash between different streams of the Indian nationalist movement broke out at home. Triggered by differences with the Mahatma and his protégés, and a desire to leverage the the crisis presented by the…

  • Ep 10: It’s time: Quit India

    August 12, 2022 · 42 min

    In 1939, the Second World War broke out in Europe. And India suddenly found itself as a participant in the war, on behalf of the allied powers. There was one problem — no Indian had been consulted. Indian nationalists were clear. They were…

  • Ep 9: The Years of Constitutionalism

    August 12, 2022 · 40 min

    As the civil disobedience movement faded, the British embarked on a political exercise to defuse nationalist aspirations — in a way that would help the Empire retain absolute political control. This manifested itself in the Round Table…

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  • Ep 8: The Mahatma’s March

    August 12, 2022 · 36 min

    The nationalist movement was at a crossroad by the end of the 1920s. On one hand, the British had shown no inclination to give Indians the right to self rule and continued with their repressive methods. On the other, anger against colonial…

  • Ep 7: When India stopped cooperating

    August 12, 2022 · 35 min

    The Rowlatt Acts and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre had enraged nationalist opinion, and it was in this backdrop that the Mahatma launched his first truly mass-based national movement against the Empire - the Non-Cooperation movement — in…

  • Ep 6: Jallianwala Bagh: The Brutality of the Empire

    August 10, 2022 · 34 min

    Even as nationalist consciousness was growing, the British decided to embark on what was arguably one of the most coercive phases of colonial rule. In 1919, soon after the First World War ended, the British introduced the Anarchical and…

  • Ep 5: When the Mahatma returned home

    August 10, 2022 · 39 min

    1915 marked a decisive turn in India’s freedom struggle. And that wasn’t because of anything the British did. It wasn’t because of anything that the Congress did. It was because one man returned to India after close to two and a half…

  • Ep 4: In Lucknow, a moment of unity

    August 9, 2022 · 38 min

    Just a decade after the Partition of Bengal, and the sharpening of the Hindu-Muslim divide, there was a moment of unity — a unity made possible by a pact between the Congress and the Muslim League in Lucknow in 1916. The Congress agreed to…

  • Ep 3: In Bengal, a partition and a movement

    August 9, 2022 · 28 min

    1905 saw a change in the direction of India’s nationalist struggle and deepened a communal divide that would haunt India for decades to come. The reason: Lord Curzon, the imperial Viceroy decided it was time to divide British India’s…

  • Ep 2: The birth of the Indian National Congress

    August 9, 2022 · 36 min

    It had been three decades since the mutiny. It was a period of gloom, as the Crown consolidated its rule, caring little for the well-being of Indians. But a set of early Indian nationalists and a somewhat unusual British reformer came…

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About the show

As we celebrate India’s 75th Independence, Hindustan Times’ journalist Prashant Jha will take us through a journey that traces back to how India became one of the first countries in Asia to get freedom from colonial rule and attain its independence. This is a Hindustan Times podcast, brought to you by HT Smartcast.