Subhas Chandra Bose resigns the Congress presidency
1939 · Event
Re-elected Congress president over Gandhi's own candidate, Bose finds the Gandhian old guard refusing to work with him, resigns and founds the Forward Bloc.
On these timelines: Gandhi's Road to Independence, India, Master
More from Gandhi's Road to Independence
- Quit India Movement (1942)
- Gandhi returns to India (1915)
- Gandhi launches satyagraha in South Africa (1906)
- Bose raises the Indian National Army (1943)
- Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1909)
- Gandhi begins his last fast (1948)
- Gandhi walks through Noakhali (1946)
- Naidu leads the Dharasana Satyagraha (1930)
Around 1939
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)