1857
Sepoys at Meerut
A greased cartridge became a spark. Barrack by barrack, the first war of independence spread across the north — crushed, but never forgotten.
1857 — 1947
Ninety years
of refusing
Freedom did not arrive on a single morning. It was argued, marched, jailed and sung into existence across four generations.
1885
A Congress is born
Seventy-two delegates met in Bombay. What began as a petitioning club would, in sixty years, become the vehicle of a freedom movement.
1919
Jallianwala Bagh
A walled garden in Amritsar, ten minutes of fire, and a country that stopped asking politely.
1930
The Salt March
Two hundred and forty miles on foot to Dandi. A fistful of salt broke a monopoly and made civil disobedience a mass language.
1942
Quit India
Do or die. Leaders were jailed within hours; students, workers and villagers carried the movement on without them.
1947
Tryst with destiny
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom — and to the cost of partition.
And the lamps were lit
