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Synopsis Encyclopaedia of Indian Freedom Struggle is a sincere effort to recognize the Indian Freedom Movement and the efforts of Indians to liberate the nation from British rule and form the nation-state of India. It involved a wide spectrum of Indian political organizations, philosophies and rebellions between 1857 and emergence of India as a unified nation-state on August 15, 1947. The initial Indian rebellion was sparked in 1857 by Indian soldiers serving in British East India Company's Army and Indian kingdoms rebelled against the British, which was crushed and India was divided into British India and Princely States. Indian educated elite's political organization started exploring their political rights and their increasing disenchantment with the British due to curtailing of Indian Civil Liberties (Rowlatt Act), political rights etc. led to upsurge in revolutionary activities aimed at overthrowing the British Colonial Powers. It all come to head between 1918-1922 when first series of Non-Violent Movements and Civil Disobedience under the leadership of Gandhi, which soon came to be the driving force that ultimately shaped culture and political unity of a diverse nation, afterwards committing itself to Poorna Swaraj Congress led mass struggles between 1930-32 and finally led a Civil Disobedience in 1942 demanding British to leave India Movement named "Quit India Movement". All that resulted the end of Raj at mid night of 15 August 1947 but only at the expense of partition of the country into India and Pakistan. All this discussed widely with references from authentic sources in this encyclopaedic work of ten volumes will prove this effort priceless and valuable for all concerned.