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The Army That Lost Every Battle and Still Broke the Raj

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

A 2,300-Mile Hedge Across India, Grown to Guard a Tax on Salt

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Ten Minutes in a Walled Garden: The Massacre That Ended India's Faith in the Empire

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

The Revolutionary Who Threw a Bomb Meant to Hurt No One, and Was Hanged at 23

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Ten Young Men Stopped a Train Near Lucknow in 1925. The Raj Charged 26 Men With Conspiring to Wage War on the King and Hanged Four.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Gandhi Walked 240 Miles to Pick Up a Lump of Salt. By the End of 1930 Some 60,000 Indians Were in British Jails.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Eight Days After a Crowd Burned the Chauri Chaura Police Station on 4 February 1922, Gandhi Called Off Non-Cooperation. A Court Sentenced 172 Men to Death and the High Court Upheld 19.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Chandrashekhar Azad Evaded the Police for More Than Five Years After Kakori. It Took Them Half an Hour to Stop Him in Alfred Park, and the Records Still Disagree on Who Fired the Last Shot

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Ram Prasad Bismil Led the Kakori Raid, Then Wrote From Death Row That Revolutionaries Could Not Win for Fifty Years. The Raj Hanged Him at 30.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

In November 1945 Auchinleck Told London That Putting Down a New Rising Would Mean Reconquering India. Fifteen Months Later Britain Named the Date It Would Leave.

The Raj & the Freedom Struggle

Three Kathas in Every Twenty Went to Indigo. When Gandhi Refused an Order to Leave Champaran in April 1917, the Government Dropped the Case Before Sentence.