India, Aug. 2 -- MUMBAI Memories of India's freedom movement, one of the country's most defining phases, are being brought to life through the brush strokes of those who lived through it - students and young artists of Mumbai's Sir JJ School of Art, Architecture and Design.

The institute, one of Mumbai's foundational institutions, will open a new gallery on Monday, with a special exhibition titled 'Swaraj: Freedom We Saw, Freedom We Painted'. The exhibition will feature 43 rare paintings from the institute's archives, many being publicly displayed for the first time.

The artworks, most of them created between the 1940s and late 1960s, show pivotal moments such as Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha, the Civil Disobedience Movement, the Quit Ind...