Ep 13: Series finale - The story of Azaadi
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. B...
1947: Road to Indian Independence
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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.
Ep 12: A Second Mutiny, a final challenge
The war had ended. India was inching towards independence, but a clear political roadmap and timeline was missing. The Muslim League had stepped up it...
Ep 11: Netaji: The life and politics of Subhash Bose
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 wi...
Ep 10: It’s time: Quit India
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 ...
Ep 9: The Years of Constitutionalism
As the civil disobedience movement faded, the British embarked on a political exercise to defuse nationalist aspirations — in a way that would help th...
Ep 8: The Mahatma’s March
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 se...
Ep 7: When India stopped cooperating
The Rowlatt Acts and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre had enraged nationalist opinion, and it was in this backdrop that the Mahatma launched his first tr...
Ep 6: Jallianwala Bagh: The Brutality of the Empire
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...
Ep 5: When the Mahatma returned home
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 C...
Ep 4: In Lucknow, a moment of unity
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 p...