Indian National Congress summary

Indira Gandhi, born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, India, was India’s first female prime minister (1966–77 and 1980–84). She was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru—a key independence movement figure and India’s first prime minister (1947–64). After attending Visva-Bharati University and the

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and ardent nationalist who helped lay the foundation for India’s independence by building his own defiance of British rule into a national movement. He founded (1914) and served as president of the Indian Home Rule League. In 1916 he

Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian revolutionary prominent in the Indian Independence Movement against British rule. Popularly known as Netaji, he led an armed force composed of former Indian prisoners of war and volunteers from the Indian expatriate community. The Indian National Army, as the force

Vallabhbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman who was one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress during the struggle for Indian independence. During the first three years of Indian independence after 1947, he served as deputy prime minister, minister of home affairs, minister of