Revolutionary Activities Flashcards
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The first phase of revolutionary activities acquired a more activist form as a fallout of the ___________________ and continued till 1917.
The second phase started as a fallout of the ___________________
Swadeshi and Boycott Movement
Non-Cooperation Movement
1st revolutionary groups organized in Bengal were?
in 1902 in Midnapore (under Jnanendranath Basu)
in Calcutta (the Anushilan Samiti founded by Promotha Mitter, and including Jatindranath
Banerjee, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, and others.
Anushilan Samiti was founded by
other members?
Promotha Mitter
Jatindranath Banerjee, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, and others
Newspaper started by Anushilan Samiti members?
Yugantar, a weekly
started by Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Bhupendranath Dutta
________________ and ________________ had organised a secret society covering far-flung areas of Punjab, Delhi, and United Provinces, while some others like ________________ went abroad for military and political training
Rashbehari (or Rash Behari) Bose and Sachin Sanyal
Hemachandra Kanungo
In 1907, an abortive attempt was made by the _____________ group on the life of a very unpopular British official, _____________ (the first Lt. Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, although he had resigned from the post on August 20, 1906).
In December 1907, there were attempts to derail the train on which the lieutenant-governor, _____________ , was travelling
Yugantar, Sir Fuller
Sir Andrew Fraser (Commission for police reforms in 1902-03, under Lord Curzon)
In 1908, _______________ and _______________ threw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying a particularly sadistic white judge, _______________, in Muzaffarpur.
The judge was not in the carriage. Unfortunately, two British ladies, instead, got killed.
Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose
Kingsford
Who were involved in Alipore conspiracy case?
Alipore conspiracy case aka?
whole Anushilan group was arrested including the Ghosh brothers, Aurobindo and Barindra kumar
Manicktolla bomb conspiracy or Muraripukur conspiracy
In Alipore conspiracy case who defended Aurobindo ghosh?
___________, as the head of the secret society of revolutionaries and _____________ (or Dutta), as the maker of bombs, were given the death penalty, which was later commuted to life in prison.
During the trial, _____________, who had turned approver and Crown witness, was shot dead by two co-accused, _____________ and _____________ in jail.
Chittaranjan Das
Barindra Ghosh and Ullaskar Dutt
Narendra Gosain (or Goswami)
Satyendranath Bose and Kanailal Dutta
In 1908, _______________was organised by _______________ under _______________ to raise funds for revolutionary activities.
_______________and _______________ staged a
spectacular bomb attack on _______________ while he was making his official entry into the new capital of Delhi in a procession through Chandni Chowk in December 1912. (He was injured, but not killed.)
Barrah dacoity
Dacca Anushilan
Pulin Das
Rashbehari Bose and Sachin Sanyal
Viceroy Hardinge
The bomb attack on Hardinge came to be known as _______________
Who were convicted for it?
Delhi Conspiracy trial
Basant Kumar Biswas, Amir Chand, and Avadh Behari
The western Anushilan Samiti found a good leader in ________________ or _______________ and emerged as the ___________________.
Jatindranath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin)
Jugantar (or Yugantar)
During the WWI, an all Indian insurrection was planned by? what was it called?
the Jugantar party arranged to import German arms and ammunition through sympathisers and revolutionaries abroad.
Jatin asked Rashbehari Bose to take charge of Upper India, aiming to bring about an all-India insurrection in what has come to be called the ‘German Plot’ or the ‘Zimmerman Plan’.
The Jugantar party raised funds through a series of dacoities which came to be known as taxicab dacoities and boat dacoities, so as to work out the
Indo-German conspiracy.
What was Planned according to Zimmerman Plan?
Why did it fail?
It was planned that a guerrilla force would be organised to start an uprising in the country, with
a seizure of Fort William and a mutiny by armed forces.
the plot was leaked out by a traitor.
Police came to know that Bagha Jatin was in Balasore waiting for the delivery of German arms.
Jatin and his associates were located by the police. There was a gun-fight as a result of which the revolutionaries were either killed or arrested. The German plot thus failed. Jatin Mukherjee was shot and died a hero’s death in Balasore on the Orissa
coast in September 1915.
The newspapers and journals advocating revolutionary activity included ____________ and ____________ in Bengal, and ____________ in Maharashtra.
Sandhya and Yugantar in Bengal
Kal in Maharashtra.
The first of the revolutionary activities in MH was
the organisation of the _________________ by _______________________ in 1879, which aimed 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 ___________. It was suppressed prematurely.
Ramosi Peasant Force by Vasudev Balwant Phadke
dacoities
During the 1890s, _______________ propagated a spirit of militant nationalism, including the use of violence, through _______________and his journals _______________ and _______________.
Two of his disciples—the _______________ brothers, _______________and _______________—murdered the _______________of Poona, _______________(name), and one _______________ in 1897.
Tilak
Ganapati and Shivaji festivals
journals: Kesari and Maharatta
Chapekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna—murdered the Plague Commissioner of Poona,
Rand, and one Lt. Ayerst in 1897.
Mitra Mela was organized by
Savarkar and his brother
Savarkar and his brother organised ____________, a
secret society, in 1899, which merged with ____________in 1904.
Soon Nasik, Poona, and Bombay emerged as centres of ____________. In 1909, ____________, the ____________ of Nasik was killed by ____________, a member of ____________.
Who was convicted for the killing?
This killing incident was also known as
Mitra Mela
Abhinav Bharat (after Mazzinni’s ‘Young Italy’) \
centres of bomb manufacture
A.M.T. Jackson, the Collector of Nasik,
Anant Lakshman Kanhere, a member of Abhinav Bharat.
it was found that Savarkar (with his two brothers,) was the brain, leader, and moving spirit of the conspiracy.
Savarkar was sentenced to transportation for life and forfeiture of all his property
Nasik conspiracy case
What were the issues tat fueled Punjab extremism?
frequent famines coupled with rise in land revenue and irrigation tax, practice of ‘begar’ by zamindars and by the events in Bengal.
____________ who brought out ____________ (with its motto of self-help at any cost)
____________ who organised the extremist
____________ in Lahore with its journal, ____________
Other leaders from Punjab
Lala Lajpat Rai
Punjabee (with its motto of self-help at any cost)
Ajit Singh (Bhagat Singh’s uncle)
Anjuman-i-Mohisban-i-Watan
Bharat Mata.
Aga Haidar, Syed Haider Raza, Bhai Parmanand, and the radical Urdu poet, Lalchand ‘Falak
Extremism in Punjab died down quickly after the
government struck in May 1907 with a ban on _____________ and the deportation of _____________ and _____________
ban on political meetings
deportation of Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh
After this, Ajit Singh and a few other associates—Sufi Ambaprasad, Lalchand, Bhai Parmanand, Lala Hardayal— developed into full-scale revolutionaries.
During the First World War, _____________ was
involved as one of the leading figures of the Ghadr Revolution.
At the close of 1913, he met _________ to discuss the possibilities of an all-India armed rising of 1857 type.
Then, they worked together to extend the _____________ to Punjab and the upper provinces.
As the plan for revolution did not succeed, he escaped to ___________ in 1915.
Much later, he was to play an important part
in the founding of the_______________.
Rashbehari Bose
Bhaga Jatin
Bengal plan of Zimmerman Plan/German Plot
Japan
INA
_____________________ had started in London in 1905 an ______________— called ‘______________—as a centre for Indian students, a scholarship scheme to bring radical youth from India, and a journal ______________.
Revolutionaries such as ______________and ______________ became its members
______________ from this circle assassinated the ______________ in 1909.
Soon, London became too dangerous for the revolutionaries, particularly after ______________ had been extradited in 1910 and transported
for life in the ______________ conspiracy case.
New centres emerged on the continent—______________and ______________ from where ______________, a Parsi revolutionary who had developed contacts with French socialists and who brought out______________, and ______________ operated.
And after 1909 when Anglo-German relations
deteriorated, ______________ chose ______________ as his base.
What was it called?
Shyamji Krishnavarma, London 1905
Indian Home Rule Society—‘India House’
journal The Indian Sociologist
Savarkar and Hardayal
Madanlal Dhingra
assassinated the India office bureaucrat Curzon-Wyllie
after Savarkar had been extradited in 1910 and transported for life in the Nasik conspiracy case.
Paris and Geneva—from where Madam Bhikaji Cama, a Parsi revolutionary
Bande Mataram
Ajit Singh
Virendranath Chattopadhyaya chose Berlin
Berlin Committee for Indian Independence