SWADESHI MOVEMENT

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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,.