Time magazine man of the year 1930

Colonial rule and jail system in india
His sacrifice highlighted the urgent need for jail reforms and drew attention to the Indian inmates held under the British colonial government.
"The rest of Bombay's population has transferred its allegiance to one of the British Government's too numerous prisoners: Mahatma Gandhi." Carefully Briton.

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"Cold English Brains." A British journalist of standing lately revisited India and reported his finding to North American Newspaper Alliance. Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford is a graduate of Glasgow University, where he remained for a time as assistant professor of Logic. Later he was a leading writer of the Carnegie International Commission in the Balkans (1913), and editor of the New Leader (1922-26).

"In India I saw what no one is likely to see again," reported Briton Brailsford. "Bombay obeyed two governments. "To the British government, with all its apparatus of legality and power, there still were loyal the European population, the Indian sepoys, who wear its uniform, a few of the merchant princes, and the older generation of the Moslem minority. "The rest of Bombay's population has transferred its allegiance to one of the British Government's too numerous prisoners: Mahatma Gandhi."

Carefully Briton Brailsford described the system of parallel government in Bombay, whereby members of the Indian National Congre

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Prejudice, Punishment, and Protest: The Carceral Experience under Colonial Rule in India

by Ashish Rawat

The punishment must proceed from the crime; the law must appear to be a necessity of things, and power must act while concealing itself beneath the gentle force of nature.

Michael Foucault, Punishment and Prison, Page 106

After engaging in a 63-day hunger strike in protest of the inhumane conditions that Indian prisoners were experiencing in the Lahore Prison, Jatindra Nath Das passed away on September 13th, 1929. His sacrifice highlighted the urgent need for jail reforms and drew attention to the Indian inmates held under the British colonial government. Das’ hunger strike signified opposition to British anti-black policy in Indian jails. Protests of prisoners during their incarceration were not new, but one of the most notable and publicised acts of resistance was the hunger strike led by Jatindra Nath Das and Bhagat Singh. The protest was put together by Bhagat Singh and other detainees to demand parity in the treatment of political prisoners̵

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Indian independence movement

Movement to end British rule in India

For independence movements of indigenous American people, see Native American self-determination.

The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed.

The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal. It later took root in the newly formed Indian National Congress with prominent moderate leaders seeking the right to appear for Indian Civil Service examinations in British India, as well as more economic rights for natives. The first half of the 20th century saw a more radical approach towards self-rule.

The stages of the independence struggle in the 1920s were characterised by the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and Congress's adoption of Gandhi's policy of non-violence and civil disobedience. Some of the leading followers of Gandhi's ideology were Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Maulana Azad