United We Stand Divided We Fall
-- Ved Valani, 7-D, Indian Educational School
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
On 15 August 1947, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru looks down to the crowd during India’s Independence Day celebration at Red fort. That day India got freedom from British rule. That day even India became united. It is said by Publilius Syrus that,” Where there is unity there is always Victory”. The above lines are true because when Britishers came to India they got attracted by India’s wealth and they wanted that wealth so they started to find weakness in Indians and at that time the biggest weakness that Indians had was lack of unity. So Britishers took full advantage of it.
When any ruler was attacked by Britishers the others instead of helping them used to think that thank god that ruler is gone but never thought that the same thing would also happen to them one day and like that one after another every Monarchs came to an end. Then Britishers started to torcher Indians and concurred the whole subcontinent. But on 2 October 1869 a great freedom fighter was born and he was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi a freedom fighter who believed in non-violence. It is said by a famous personality that freedom is the price of responsibility. It’s exactly same thing that Mahatma Gandhi did he took a vow to give freedom to Indians and did many acts and reunited Indians.
Some of his acts are:
•Champaran Movement (1917) The Champaran Movement in 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement inspired by Gandhi and a major revolt in the Indian Independence Movement. Farmers of Bihar were protesting against the farming of indigo with barely any payment for it. Champaran Movement is the first popular movement which gave direction to India's youth and freedom fighters.
•Kheda Movement (1918) The Kheda Movement of 1918 was a major revolt in the Indian independence movement. The movement was started in the Kheda district of Gujarat by the Mahatma Gandhi during the period of the British Raj. People of Kheda were unable to pay the high taxes levied by the British due to crop failure and a plague epidemic. It was the third Satyagraha movement led by Mahatma Gandhi after Champaran Satyagraha and Ahmedabad mill strike.
•Non-cooperation Movement (1920) The Non-cooperation movement was launched on 1 August 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi. Following the Rowlatt Act of 17 March 1919, and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 13 April 1919, Indian National Congress withdrew its support for British reforms. Mahatma Gandhi launches the Non-cooperation movement with the aim of self-governance and obtaining full independence. Through Non-cooperation movement Mahatma Gandhi urged the protestors to boycott Britisher's goods and services and wearing Khadi. Since then the movement became the motto of the Indian freedom movement.
•Salt Satyagraha Movement – Dandi march (1930) The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi Satyagraha began with Dandi march in the year 1930. Dandi march was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi started this march with 80 of his trusted volunteers. Walking ten miles a day for 24 days, the march spanned over 240 miles, from Sabarmati Ashram, 240 miles (384 km) to Dandi formerly known as Navsari. Many people joined them along the way. After reaching Dandi, Gandhi and his followers violated the salt laws by making salt from the salted seawater
•Quit India Movement (1942) The Quit India Movement or the August Movement was launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British Rule of India. Gandhi made a call to 'Do or Die' in his Quit India speech delivered in Bombay session of the All-India Congress. As a consequence, the entire leadership of the Indian National Congress was imprisoned by the British officials without trial. Soon British officials realized that their days of the rule in India were over. By the end of World War II, they made clear indications of handing over the powers to India.
So on this Independence day we have to take a vow to always be united as this is one lesson that we got from Indian History. It is said by Theodore Roosevelt, ”The more you know about the past, the more you are prepared for future.” Difficulties and problems are going to come but individually we are one drop and together we are ocean so “BE UNITED”.
JAI HIND
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Ved Valani, 7-D, Indian Educational School |
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