Home Rule Movement-psc

Home Rule Movement-psc

1-After Tilak’s return, having served sentence of six years in Mandalay, he tried securing the readmission of himself and other Extremists into the Indian National Congress.

2-With the need being felt for popular pressure to attain concessions,

disillusionment with Morley-Minto Reforms and wartime miseries, Tilak and Annie Besant readied to assume leadership.

3-The Home Rule League was pioneered on lines of a similar movement in Ireland.

Objective

The objective of Home Rule League was

1-Self Government for India in British Empire

2-“Work for National Education. Social & Political reforms.

3-Tilak linked up the question of swaraj with the demand for the formation of linguistic states and education in vernacular.

4-He also used Home Rule lo put an end to caste feeling among the common people and advocated abolition of untouchability.

5-Tilak (April) and Annie Besant & S. Subramaniam Iyer (September) established Home Rule Leagues in 1916.

6-Tilak’s League was lo work in Maharashtra. Karnataka. Central Provinces and Berar and Annie Besant’s in the rest of India

7-Annie Besant set up the newspapers— New India. Commonweal and Young India (1916)

8-Tilak published —Mahratta & Kesari

9-Jamnadas Dwatkadas. Shankarlal Banker. Indulal Yagnik. George Arundale. B P Wadia and L P Ramaswamy Iyer were in Besant’s League.

10-Home Rule Movement declined after Besant accepted the proposed Montford Reforms and Tilak went to Britain lo light the Libel suit against Valentine Chirol's Indian Unrest.

Methods

1-Create public opinion in favour of Home Rule through public meeting, also organising discussions, reading rooms propaganda through public meetings, newspapers. pamphlets, posters, etc.

2-Positive Gains Emphasis shifted to the masses permanently organizational link established between town and country prepared a generation of ardent nationalists, influenced Moderate-Extremist reunion at Lucknow (1916)

3-Lucknow Session-1916 (Presided by Ambika Charan Mazumdar ) Lucknow Pact 119(6) was signed between the INC and the Muslim League. The mam provisions (a) Principle of separate electorates was accepted, (b) Demand for a representative government and Dominion Status for India.

Results

1-The movement marks the beginning for attainment of Swaraj

2-It discredited moderates of INC and created condition for readmission of Neo-Nationalists in 1916

3-Montague Declaration of 1917—Greatest political achievement

4-Education Programme