EVENT INFORMATION

18
Febrüari
1946

Royal Indian Navy sailors launch a strike against colonial rule

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📅 18 Febrüari 1946 📍

Ratings at HMIS Talwar in Bombay began a hunger strike over food, racist abuse, and service conditions; the action quickly spread through the Royal Indian Navy. Workers and students joined demonstrations. Though political leaders urged the sailors to surrender, the revolt revealed the fragility of British authority after the war and the growing force of anticolonial mobilization.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

B. C. Dutt

Indian naval ratings

Bombay workers and students

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Royal Indian Navy

Indian National Congress

Muslim League