Saturday, August 16, 2008

Memoirs of Indian Freedom Struggle

On Independence Day, I was browsing through a news site and came across snapshot of a 64 years old very interesting poster. That was the time around India was fighting for its freedom. On further looking around i found a few more of them... they are really interesting and i had never seen such kind of posters before... so just wanted to share with you all...



Political Elephants
As partition looms, illustrator EH Shepard (of Winnie the Pooh fame) depicts the mainly Hindu Congress organization and the Muslim League as two elephants ignoring each other in a 1946 cartoon for Punch. All images courtesy of the British Library.



Political Boycott
This 1928 poster condemns the Simon Commission sent by London to look at India's future because it had no Indian members.



Made in India
From the 1920s, Congress advocated the boycotting of British goods and the embrace of swadeshi - the promotion of Indian products and traditional technologies.



Paths to Freedom
This Congress poster depicts India as an old man having to choose from three paths: co-operation with the imperial government, violence and peaceful non-cooperation.




Serene Defiance
This poster shows non-cooperating Indians sitting in a tree as a soldier tries to shake them out and Mahatma Gandhi sits by serenely.

Path towards Mastery


To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
~Zen