A countrywide movement was organized and conducted by the Indians to get rid of the tyranny and oppression of the British rule. It was named as the national movement. The movement lasted from 1857 to 15th August, 1947. Discrimination against Indians, decimation of the national culture, unjust policies and economic exploitation of Indians were some of the main causes that gave rise to the national movement by the Indian against the British administration.

The movement was carried on peacefully in a revolutionary manner. It took the form of a public movement. People of different religions participated in it. It was not only, a political movement, but it also covered the social and economic aspects of Indian life. It was not a movement conducted by a particular political party or a special group of the society rather it came out as a mass movement and as a reaction against the expansionist tendency of the British government and the tyranny exercised on Indians by the British administration.