Activities Flashcards
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Nasik Conspiracy Case
(1909)
Anant Kanhare & Ganesh Savarkar short dead collector Jackson of Nasik with the revolver sent by V.D. Savarkar
Savarkar was charged with Jackson’s murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at Cellular Jail of Andaman in 1910.
Mzaffarpur Shooting
(1908)
Also known as the Manicktolla bomb intrigue or Alipore Bomb Conspiracy Case.
Khudi Ram & Prafulla Chaki tried to bomb Kingsford, the District Judge of Muzaffarpur but instead his wife & daughter died. Khudiram a minor was hanged & Prafulla Chaki shot himself dead.
Delhi Conspiracy Case
When Lord Hardinge was passing through a procession celebrating the shifting of Capital to Delhi a bomb was thrown on him.13 people were arrested. Master Amir Chand, Awadh Bihari, Bal Mukund & Basant Kumar Biswas were hanged whereas Ram Bihari Bose succeded in fleeing to Japan.
Rashbehari Bose was involved in the Ghadar Revolu�on.
1913, he met Ja�n Das to discuss the possibili�es of an all-India armed uprising of 1857 type.
He played an important part in the founding of the Indian Na�onal Army
Gadar Movement 1915
Baba Sohan Singh Bakhna (president)
Lala Hardayal (secretary) and Pandit Kashiram (treasurer) at San Franscisco.
A paper by the name of Gadar was also brought out by this party.Raja Mahendra Pratap even set up a government in exile for India’s independence at Kabul.
Lahore Conspiracy Case
1915
A raid was conducted quash the activities of Gadar revolutionaries. Bhai Parmanand was arrested. Vishnu Ganesh Pingle & Kartar Singh Sarabha were also arrested.Baba Sohan Singh Bakhna were transported for life.
Lahore Conspiracy Case
(Saunder’s Murder)
(1927)
Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru killed Police officer John Saunders on December 17, 1927.
Sukhdev Thapar and Chandrashekhar Azad assisted them in this act.
Their original target was James Scott, who had ordered his men to lathi-charge protesters, resulting in the death of Lala Lajpat Rai.
After the preliminary, each of the three was condemned and executed by hanging in March 1931, and this case is known as the Lahore conspiracy case.
Kakori Conspiracy Case 1925
Ram Prasad Bismil, Rajendra Lahiri, Roshan Singh & Ashfaqullah Khan (first Muslim) were hanged.
Sachindranath Saynal was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Chandra Sekhar Azad was also involved but he escaped.
Meerut Conspiracy 1929
Bomb explosion in Central Legisla�ve Assembly by Bhagat Singh and B.K. Du�
Bombs in the central assembly to protest the Trade Disputes Bill and Public Safety Bill – introduced by the Bri�sh government to curtail working-class poli�cs in India.
Thirty-one Communist leaders arrested for sedi�on: Trial lasted 4 years
Chittagong Armoury Raid
1930-32
Under the leadership of Suryasen on government armouries at Chittagong, Mymen Singh & Barisal.
Ambika Chakraborty, Loknath Bal & Ganesh Ghose were prominent leaders involved.
Among the girls, Kalpana Dutt, Preetilata Waddekar were in the forefront.
A fight took place in Jalalabad hills where a number of revolutionaries were killed.
Assassination of Lieutenant
Colonel William
Curzon-Wylie
(1909)
Place: In the meeting of Indian students at the Imperial Instiute in London.
Madanlal Dhingra, inspired by Veer Savarkar’s revolutionary ideas, murdered Lieutenant Colonel William Curzon-Wylie.
Dhingra was arrested and later tried.
Howrah Gang Case
(1910)
Also known as the Howrah-Shibpur Conspiracy case.
Leader: Jatindranath Mukherjee.
47 Bengali Indian nationalists of the Anushilan Samiti were captured for the homicide of Inspector Shamsul Alam who was investigating the progressive exercises of
the Samiti.
Jatindranath Mukherjee and Narendranath Bhattacharjee were condemned to one-year detention
Vasudev Balwant Phadke
(1879)
Organised Ramosi Peasant Army to rid the country of the British by instigating an armed revolt by disrupting communication lines.
It hoped to raise funds for its activities through dacoits but was suppressed.
Chitagong Revolt Group
Indian Republican Army
(1930)
Raised by Surgansen in April 1930 that Conducted raid at chitagong armoury on 18th April 1930.
They destroyed telephone and telegraph lines and blew rail tracks.
He was trying to supply arms and ammo to the revolutionaries
Preetilata wadekar & Kalpana Dutta were associated with it.
Suryansen was captured and hanged on 12th January 1934
Punjab (1900-1906)
Lala Lajpat Rai brought out ‘Punjabee’ (motto - self- help at any cost)
Ajit Singh organised ‘Anjuman-i-Mohisban-i- Watan’ in Lahore with its journal, Bharat Mata
Other leaders: Aga Haidar, Syed Haider Raza, Bhai Parmanand and the radical Urdu poet, Lalchand ‘Falak’. Extremism in the Punjab died down quickly after the
government struck in May 1907 with a ban on political meetings and the deportation of Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh.
Sufi Amba Prasad, Lalchand, Bhai Parmanand, Lala Hardayal developed in to full-scale revolutionaries
Madras
In Madras, the people were excited by the speeches of B. C. Pal
Chidambaram Pilai openly spoke of complete Independence.
His arrest led to riots in Tuticorin and Tirunelveli resulting in an open fire in the crowd by the police authority.
Robert Ashe, who had ordered the firing at Tirunelveli, was assassinated by Vanchi Aiyar
Revolutionaries in europe
The Berlin Committee for Indian Independence was established in 1915 by Virendranath Chatopadhyay, Bhupendranath Dutta, Lala Hardayal and others with the
help of the German foreign office under “Zimmerman Plan’
Indian revolutionaries in Europe sent missions to Baghdad, Persia, Turkey and Kabul to work among Indian troops and the Indian prisoners of war (POWs) and to
incite anti-Briish feelings among the people of these countries.
One mission under Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, Barkatullah and Obaidullah Sindhi went to Kabul to organise a Provisional Indian Government with the help of thecrown prince, Amanullah.
Mutiny in Singapore
Among the scattered mutinies during this period, the most notable was in Singapore on February 15, 1915 by Punjabi Muslim 5th Light Infantry and the 36th Sikh
batalion under Jamadar Chisti Khan, Jamadar Abdul Gani and Subedar Daud Khan.
It was crushed after a fierce battle in which many were killed. Later, 37 persons were executed and 41 for life
