Freedom Struggle PART I ( Swadesi Movement to Civil Disobedience Movement)

• Industrial conference began to be held from December 1905 onwards along with Congress sessions to promote the spirit of non militant Swadeshi
• Krishna Kumar Mitra's Anti Circular Samiti was the only of its kind to induct Muslims and it boycotted the idea of Shivaji or Ganpati festivals because of their religious leanings
• Surat Session of 1907 was scheduled to be held at Nagpur
• Tilak was given the title Lokmanya during the course of Home Rule movement
• Udham singh killed Gen Dyer
• Tilak's case in 1916 was fought by a committee led by Jinnah
• In 1916 Lucknow session Muslim league wanted under representation of the League in Muslim dominated provinces and over representation in Muslim majority provinces
• Nava Bharat Sabha was formed against the autocratic rule of the Maharaja of Gwalior
• 1908 Tuticorin Coral Meal Strike was led by Chidambaram Pillai and Subramaniyam Siva
• Subramaniyam Bharti wrote poems hailing the Russian revolution of 1917
• Subramaniyam Aiyer renounced Knighthood in protest of the arrest of Annie Besant in 1917
• Lala Harkishan published Tribune and founded the Punjab National Bank
• Gnanendra Nath Basu set up the first terrorist group of Bengal
• Hemchandra Kanungo went to Paris to get military training
• V.J Patel and GK Parikh enquired into the Kheda case
• In Bardoli Kuverji Mehta founded Patidar Yuvak Mandal
• Annie Besant believed in Fabian Socialism
• Tilak wrote Arctic Home of the Vedas and Gita Rahasya
• Bhagat Singh wrote"Door to Death"
• Lala Hardayal wrote earliest Indian article on Marxism in Modern Review(1912)
• Bipin Bihari Ganguly established Atmonnati Samiti
• CR Das moved the resolution on Non Cooperation
• Tilak first proposed the formation of a Congress working Committe in 1916
• Sachin Sanyal wrote Bandi Jivan
• Preetilata Waddedar was the first woman martyr of Modern India
• Shyamji Krishna varma published Indian Sociologist
• Madam Bhikaji Kama published Vandemataram from Paris and she founded Paris Indian Society
• Lala Hardayal, Bhupebdranath Dutta and Virendranath Chatterjee founded Independence Committe and published Talwar from Berlin and also engaged in Zimmerman Plan with help from the Germans
• GD Kumar published Swades Sevak and Tarak Nath Daas published Free Hindustan
• Shankaran Nair was the first Indian to be appointed Advocate General of Madras.He resigned after the Jalianwalabagh massacre
• Tilak Swaraj Fund was created after the Vijaywada session in March 1921
• Rajani Pam Dutta in his India Today harshly criticized Gandhi
• Highest number of delegates in any session of Congress was in Nagpur Session in 1921
• Three Indians in the Hunter Commission wre Sultan Ahmad, Jagat Narayan and Chiman Lal
• Mohanlal Pandya had started the No rent movement in Kheda
• In November 1919 All India Khilafat Conference was held in Delhi with Gandhi as its President
• Gandhi was not in favour of Luknow Pact
• Vaikom Styagraha was led by K Kelappan, TK Madhavan and K P Menon
• Nagpur Flag Satyagraha-1923
• Independent Party was formed by Jinnah in 1923
• Muddiman Committe was formed to enquire into the functioning of 1919 Act in 1927
• Poona Pact was mediated by Madan Mohan Malavya
• Khudai Khidmatgar was formally made a part of Congress in 1931
• Shaikh Abdullah founded Muslim Conference in 1932 which was renamed as National Conference in 1938
• Lee Modi Pact was signed in 1933 which stated that British will export more cotton clothes to India in exchange for more export of raw cotton from India
• Demand for linguistic provinces was made a part of Congress resolution in 1920
• Dange wrote Gandhi Vs Lenin
• Nehru ,Besant, Jinnah, Patel all were present in the inaugural session of AITUC but Gnadhi kept himself aloof
• Baba Ramachandra founded Kurmi Kshatriya Sabha
• Raj narayan Bose gave call for Nationalism in late 1880s
• Besant opposed Rowlatt Satyagraha.Was it because Gandhi too kept hiself aloof from Besant's Home Rule? Think...
• Due to violence in Ahmedabad Gandhi called off Rowlatt Satyagraha
• HRA was formed in 1924 in Kanpur
• Abdul Bari of Lucknow supported Rowlatt Satyagraha
• Organisation of Besant's Home Rule was much looser than that of Tilak and only 3 members could form a group
• Khilafat committee was formed in Lucknow in 1919