India

Jawaharlal Nehru sought first to free India, and then to ensure its independent voice on the world stage "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." Gandhi and Nehru in 1946 Jawaharlal Nehru was born on this day in 1889.

Elected to the British Parliament in 1922, Saklatvala was born on this day in 1874 What is it that connects Battersea in South London, the Indian corporate giant Tata Steel, and the Communist Party of Great Britain?

Today in 1948, Gandhi was assassinated. His vision is still urgent, for South Asia and for the whole world.

One of the favourite lies told by Britain's imperial apologists is that the decolonisation of the British Empire was 'bloodless'.