Revolutionary Activities, WWI & Home Rule

1897 revolutionary assassination

Chapekar Brothers assassinated W.C. Rand (Plague Commissioner of Poona)

Founder of Mitra Mela (1899) in Poona

Savarkar Brothers

Founders of Anushilan Samiti (1902) in Bengal

Satish Chandra Basu, Jatindranath Banerjee and Pramathanath Mitra

Formation of Jugantar Group (1906)

Barindra Kumar Ghosh

Merger of Mitra Mela in 1904

Merged with Abhinav Bharat Society by V. D. Savarkar

Founders of Indian Home Rule and Indian House (1905) in London

Shyamji Krishna Verma

Journal written by Shyamji Krishna Verma

The Indian Sociologist

First Indian to hoist Indian Flag on foreign soil (1907 in Stuttgart, Germany)

Madam Bhikaji Cama

Journal published by Madam Bhikaji Cama

Vande Mataram

Smuggler of Madam Bhikaji Cama's flag into British India

Indulal Yagnik

Individuals involved in Alipore/Manicktala Bomb Conspiracy (1908 attempt to murder Judge Kingsford)

Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki

Result of the 1908 Muzaffarpur bomb incident

Prafulla Chaki shot himself, Khudiram Bose was hanged

Killer of the witness Narendranath Goswami

Kanailal Dutta

Assassin of Curzon Wyllie in 1909

Madan Lal Dhingra

Assassin of AMT Jackson in 1909

Anant Lakshman

Founders of Swadesh Sevak Home (Vancouver) and United India House (USA) in 1910

Taraknath Das and G.D. Kumar

Formation of Ghadar Party (1913)

San Francisco (HQ

Key leaders of Ghadar Party

Lala Hardayal, Sohan Singh Bhakna (First President), Barkatullah, Parmanand, Kartar Singh

Successor to Lala Hardayal as Secretary of Ghadar Party

Ram Nath Puri

Founder of Berlin Committee (1915)

Virendranath Chattopadhyay

Jail where V.D. Savarkar was sent in 1911

Cellular Jail in Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Komagata Maru Incident (1914)

A Japanese ship carrying 376 Indian passengers (primarily Sikhs) denied entry to Canada and forced to return to India

Defence of India Act 1915

Enacted by British government to suppress Ghadrites in Punjab during World War I (later replaced by Rowlatt Act)

Allies of World War I (Winners)

Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia, and USA

The Central Powers in World War I

Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and Ottoman Empire

Moderates' stance during World War I

Supported the war as a matter of duty

Extremists' stance during World War I

Supported the war, hoping for future self-governance in return

Revolutionaries' stance during World War I

Saw the war as an opportunity to actively fight against British rule

Founders of the two Home Rule Leagues (1916)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant

Renamed title of Tilak's HRL after his death in 1920

Swarajya Sabha (renamed by Mahatma Gandhi)

Headquarters of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's HRL

Poona (Centre

Headquarters of Annie Besant's HRL

Madras (Centre

President of Lucknow Session (1916)

Ambika Charan Mazumdar

Key events in 1916 Lucknow Session

Reunion of Extremists and Moderates, Lucknow Pact signed between INC and Muslim League

Demands of INC at Lucknow Session

Self Government, Abolition of Indian Council, Separation of Judiciary & Executive, Salary of Secretary of State from British Exchequer, 1/2 members of Executive Council to be Indians, 1/3rd representation to Muslims

Writer of New India and Common Weal

Annie Besant

Writer of Al Hilal (Urdu weekly) and book India Wins Freedom

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Writer of Comrade (English weekly newspaper)

Maulana Md. Ali

1906 movement of Sri Aurobindo

Resigned from post in Baroda and moved to Calcutta as a nationalist leader

1910 movement of Sri Aurobindo

Withdrew from active politics and moved to Pondicherry for spiritual pursuits

Establishment of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

1926

Author of "New Lamps for Old" (published in 1893)

Shri Aurobindo Ghose