The Tryst with Destiny

A lady spinning Swadeshi yarn

© K.L.Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri
A lady spinning Swadeshi yarn
A lady spinning yarn

Gandhiji used spinning as a powerful weapon to drive home the importance of self-reliance. Picture from a 1940s picture postcard.
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Woman with a Spinning Wheel

The Story of India's Freedom Struggle
The Story of India's Freedom Struggle

Pictures of Freedom Struggle

Portrait of Sarojini NaiduKamaladevi ChattopadhayaKamaladevi ChattopadhayaIndian Soldiers Being Executed by British CanonsYou are hereSardar Vallabhbhai PatelAshfaqualla Khan, Freedom FighterLala Lajpatrai (1865-1928)Civil Disobedience in Action
Police Roughing-up the SatyagrahisLokamanya Bal Gangadhar TilakCelebration of Bardoli DayPictures of Freedom MovementPortrait of Ram Prasad BismilMaharani of TravancoreGopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915)Presidents Message for Haripura Congress ConventionDa. Pa. Karamarakar
Khan Mohammad Abbas Khan C. Rajagopalachari (1878 - 1972) Dadabhai Navroji (1825-1917) Bhagwan Das (1869-1958)Portrait of Jamnalal Bajaj Anjali Ammal Narottam Morarji Picture of Kamala Nehru Kadengodlu Shankar Bhat
Swadeshi Memorabilia Portrait of Indira GandhiSalt March to Break the LawSubhash Chandra Bose Making a Radio BroadcastGandhian Freedom Fighters Soldiers of Non-violence Marching to Break LawSatyagrahis squatting on the beach to break lawLohia at Congress ConventionBidhan Chandra Roy (1882 - 1962)
Biswanath DasAnugrah Narayan SinhaCongressman Balakrishna Sharma (1897-1960)Babu Purushottamdas TandonV. I. Muniswamy PillaiBalaji Bhawansa WalvekarB. Pattabhi Sitaramiah (1880 - 1959)Deshabandhu Chittaranjan DasSardar Vallabhai Patel
Maulana Abdul Kalam AzadDeshbandhu Chitta Ranjan Das (1870-1925)Pandit Motilal NehruRao Bahadur MudholkarAcharya Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861-1944)Henry Cotton (1845-1915)N.G. Chandavarkar (1855-1923)Alan Octavian HumeIndira Nehru
Annie BesantGeorge YuleNawasb Syed Muhammad BahadurMarch of Satyagrahis in GoaTagore and GandhiMadam Cama and the First Flag of Free IndiaVeerapandia KattabommanPortrait of Lal Bahadur ShastriPortrait of Rabindranath Tagore
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920)Tribute to Martyrs

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