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Please refer to the earlier articles published for detailed informations.The suggestions on Peasants rebellion,trade union movement,,socio cultural renaissance,caste movements to be published soon.

  • Sardar Patel presided over the Karachi session of Congress in 1931
  • Gandhi was the sole representative of congress in the second RTC
  • In 1933 Gandhi went for a 21 day fast for Harijan cause
  • Satara Conspiracy-1910
  • First provisional govt in Bali and longest running provisional govt in Satara
  • In 1941 Fazulul Haq formed a coalition with Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and thus ousted from Muslim League
  • In 1919 All India Khilafat Conference was held in Delhi with Gandhi as the President.Earlier a Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay
  • In 1916 Lucknow session Muslim league accepted under representation in Muslim majority provinces in return for over representation in Bombay, UP etc.
  • In 1918 Tilak and Gandhi toured villages to raise money for helping the British in World war efforts
  • Muslim League representatives in the Interim Govt-Liakat Ali,Abdul Nistar,GA Khan,I Chudringer and J Mondal
  • Das Bengal Pact- 1923,Lee Modi Pact-1934
  • In 1925 Vithalbhai Patel became the first President of Central Legislative Assembly
  • Malavya and MS Aney formed Congress Nationalist Party
  • After a riot broke out in Kohat in 1924 Gandhi went for a 21 day fast
  • Lal Chand wrote "Self Abnegation in Politics" and Bipin Chandra Pal wrote "New India"
  • Krishna Kumar Mitra's Anti Circular Samiti was the only samiti which had considerable number of Muslims
  • Lala Harkishan Lal published"The Tribune" and founded Punjab National Bank
  • In the Allahabad session of League Iqbal first demanded a Muslim majority province
  • Initially Tilak was the candidate for 1906 session
  • Rajendra Prasad,Narhari Parikh,Brij Kishor,JB Kripalni,Mahadev Desai and A N Sinha were Gandhi's associates in the Champaran case
  • Krishna Kumar Mitra gave the idea of boycott
  • The formal proclaimation of Swadeshi on 7th August at a meeting in town hall,calcutta
  • In 1907 session which was originally scheduled to held at Nagpur, Lala Rajpat Rai was the Presidential candidate for the Extremists
  • Communal clashes broke out during the swadeshi movement as the British constantly propped up the muslims against the Hindus
  • Tilak linked up the question of Swarajwith the demand for the formation of linguistic states and education in vernacular
  • Industrial conference began to be held from 1905 calcutta session onwards
  • Demand for linguistic provinces was given a place in Congress constitution in 1920
  • Raj Narayan Bose popularised the term nationalism in the late 19th century
  • First AISPC was held in Bombay in 1927
  • 1927- Butler Committee was formed on Indian Pricely states
  • First meeting of AITUC in Bombay
  • Darsananda and Viswananda started East India Railway strike in 1922
  • Mohd Ali published the journal COMRADE, MAKA published Al Hilal.
  • Congress ministries in Bihar and UP resigned for the demand of releasing political prisoners
  • All India Womens Conference in 1945 in Hyderabad
  • Justice Party and Unionist Party supported Simon Commission
  • In 1941 National Defence Council was established
  • Subhash Chandra Bose advocated the use of Hindi in Roman script
  • United India House at Seattle by Taraknath Das and GD Kumar in 1910
  • Virendranath Chatterjee published Talwar , Shyamji Krishna Verma published Indian Sociologist,Madam Bhikaji Kama pblished Vandemataram and Taraknatha Das published Free Hindustan
  • Lala Hardayal wrote the earliest Indian article on Marx in Modern Reveiw
  • GD Kumar published a Gurumukhi paper"Swades sevak"
  • Barin Ghosh published Bhavani Mandir pamphlet to arouse patriotism among his young followers
  • Ajit Singh started a journal"Bharat Mata"
  • Chidambaram Pillai and Subramaniyam Siva started Tuticorin Coral Mill Strike in 1908
  • Members of the Nehru Report Committee-Sapru,Nehru,Subhash Bose,Sir Ali Iman S.Qureshi,GR Pradhan,MSAney,Mangal Singh
  • Nehru report demanded that India should be a federation of linguistic provinces and it also demanded the right for the women to vote
  • Matilal Ghosh and Sisir Kumar Ghosh started Amrit Bazar Patrika

Tribal Uprisings

NAME

LEADER

YEAR

KITTUR UPRISING

RANI CHINAMMA AND RAYAPPA

1824

GADKARI REBELLION

KRISHNA DAJI PANDIT

1845

SATARA REBELLION

DHAR RAO PAWAR AND NARSIMHA DATTATREYA

1840

PAIK REBELLION

KHURDA RAJA AND JAGABANDHU

1805

DECCAN RIOT

1875

KHASI REVOLT

TIRUT SINGH

1829-32

PAGAL PANTHIS

KARIM SHAH ,TIPU

1825

PABNA UNREST

BUDDHA BHAGAT

1872-76

CUTCH REBELLION

RAO BHARMAL

1859

TRAVANCORE REBELLION

VELU THAMPI

1809

WAHABI REVOLT

SYED AHMAD OF BAREILY(DIED IN THE WAR OF BALAKOT AGAINST THE BRITISH),.INAYET ALI,VILAYET ALI

1820 ONWARDS

FAQIR REBELLION

MAJNUM SHAH, CHIRAG ALI,BHAVANI PATHAK,DEVI CHOWDHURANI

1776

SAMBHALPUR REBELLION

SURENDRA SAI

1827-40

RAMOSIS REBELLION

CHITTUR SINGH ,UMAJI

1822-29

FARAIZI MOVEMENT

HAZI SHARIATULLAH

1838

SANTHAL REBELLION

SIDHU-KANU

1856

RAJU REBELLION

BIRBHADRA RAJU, SITARAM RAJU

MUNDA REBELLION OR ULGULAN

BIRSA MUNDA

1899-1900

CHACHAR UPRISING

SHAMBHU DAN

1882

GANJAM REVOLT

DHANANJAY BHANJA

1835

BUNDELLA REVOLT

MADHUKAR SHAH,

JAUHAR SINGH

1842

SATAVANDI REVOLT

PHOND SAWANT,ANNA SAHIB

1839

KHOND REBELLION

CHANDRA BISOI

1846

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