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Post-War Upsurge: Barindra Kumar Ghosh Popularly, Barin Ghosh (5
Post-War Upsurge: Barindra Kumar Ghosh Popularly, Barin Ghosh (5
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5. Ajit singh :
Madan Lal Dhingra was the sixth of seven children of a civil surgeon. All six sons studied abroad.
In June 1906, Dhingra left Amritsar for Britain. He enrolled in University College, London, to study
engineering.
Dhingra arrived in London a year after the foundation of Shyamaji Krishnavarma's India House.
This organization in Highgate was a meeting place for Indian radicals. They had weekly meetings,
which Dhingra would often attend. V. D. Savarkar became manager of India House and inspired
Dhingra's admiration in the cult of assassination. However, Dhingra became aloof from India
House and was known to undertake shooting practice at a range on Tottenham Court Road. On 1
July 1909, he attended an 'At Home' hosted by the National Indian Association at the Imperial
Institute. At the end of the event, as the guests were leaving, Dhingra shot Sir Curzon-Wyllie, an
India Office official, at close range. His bullets also hit Dr Lalcaca, a Parsee doctor, who was killed
Dhingra was immediately arrested. At his trial, Dhingra represented himself, although he did not
recognize the legitimacy of the court. He claimed that he had murdered Curzon-Wyllie as a
patriotic act and in revenge for the inhumane killings of Indians by the British Government in
India. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was executed at Pentonville Prison on 17
August 1909.
4. N.K. Ramaswamy Iyer,: was an Indian educationist, social reformer and lawyer
from Tiruchirapalli, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
5. M. Krishna Rao: Indian freedom fighter, editor, scholar and literary
critic.[2][4] He was the editor of Krishna Patrika, a nationalist publication
from 1907 to 1945.[5] He is considered to be the doyen of Telugu
journalism.
6. Rarnnath Puri,
7. G.D. Kumar,
8. Taraka Nath Das
9. Jawaharlal Nehru,
10.Shankarlal
11.Banker
12.Muhammad Ali,
13.Shaukat Ali,
14.Abdul Kalam Azad
15.Khilafat agitation
16.Abul Kalarn had,
17.Maulana Akram Khan and
18.Muniruzamman Islamabadi popularised the
1. movement in Bengal. Akrarn Khan's Moharnmadi.
Madras Native Association: In Bombay and Madras, there were two important
first political organizations. The first political organization of the Bombay
Presidency was the Bombay Association which was started on 26 August 1852,
to vent public grievances to the British. The first organization in the Madras
Presidency to which was established by Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty in 1849.
However, both of them were essentially local in character and so got disbanded
in a few. first Indian-owned newspaper in Madras, The Crescent.
During the mid-19th century, Christian missionaries indulged in open
proselytisation in public institutions in the Madras Presidency. Their
proselytisation activities were allegedly favoured by officials of the British
government who preferred native Christians to Hindus in higher appointments
in order to entice Hindu Indians to embrace Christianity . The religious stance
of the Madras government was frequently condemned by the Hindu population.
Lakshminarasu supported their cause and launched agitations against
conversions.
National Education
National education was another item to which Sri Aurobindo attached much
importance. It was included as part of the four-fold Programme of the new
Nationalist Party. The movement began well and many national schools were
established in Bengal and many able men became teachers, but still the development
was insufficient and the economical position of the schools precarious. Sri Aurobindo
had decided to take up the movement personally and see whether it could not be
given a greater expansion and a stronger foundation, but his departure from Bengal
cut short this plan. In the repression and the general depression caused by it, most of
the schools failed to survive. The idea lived on and it may be hoped that it will one
day find an adequate form and body.
Home rule movement: movement in British India on the lines of Irish Home Rule
movement and other home rule movements. The movement lasted around two years
between 1916–1918 and is believed to have set the stage for the independence
movement under the leadership of Annie Besant all over India whereas B. G.
Tilak participation was limited to the educated English speaking upper class Indians. [1] In
1921 All India Home Rule League changed its name to Swarajya Sabha see clas note
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Simon commission
Nehru report
Salt satyagraha
Civil disobedience
Objective resolution