08. Rise of Indian National Congress

nation vs Country vs State

1. Shared identity, no need for fixed territory. Ex: Ancient

2. Fixed territory, no need to have sovereignity. India during British rule

3. Territory+citizens+Gvt+sovereignity

Moderates time period

1885-1907

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Landholders Society / Zamindari Association

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1838

2. Dwarkanath Tagore

3. To protect zamindari rights against new revenue policies.

Bengal British India Society (BIS) {BIS, BIA, EIA)

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1843 (Established in London in 1839; Bengal branch in 1843)

2. William Adams with George Thompson (Same Adam of Adam's report)

3. To gather and publish information on conditions in India and advocate welfare and reforms by peaceful, lawful means

British India Association (BIA)

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1851 (BIS+BBIA)

2. Radhakanta Deb

3. Demanded inclusion in the Charter Act 1853 (Separation of Executive and Judiciary, Execuitve and legislative,establishment of a separate legislature)

East India Association (EIA)

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1866 in London (later branch in Bombay)

2. Dadabhai Naoroji

3. To present India's case before British public opinion and demand just governance

Indian League

1. year

2. Founder

1. 1875

2. Sisir Kumar Ghosh

Indian (National) Association of Calcutta

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1876

2. Surendranath Banerjee & Ananda Mohan Bose

3. To demand Indianisation of services and civil rights, protest pro-landlord policies, and build an all-India platform

From here on, they are in Bombay presidency

Poona Sarvajanik Sabha

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1870

2. M.G. Ranade, G.K. Gokhale (later)

Bombay Presidency Association

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1885

2. Pherozeshah Mehta, K.T. Telang, Badruddin Tyabji

Madras Native Association

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1852

2. Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty

Madras Mahajana Sabha

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1884

2. Viraraghavachari, G. Subramania Iyer, P. Anandacharlu

United India Patriotic Association

1. year

2. Founder

3. Aim

1. 1888

2. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan & Raja Shiv Prasad Singh

3. To promote loyalty to the British Raj and oppose the Indian National Congress

1st INC session

1. year

2. Place

3. President

4. No of members

5. Who organised

1. 1885

2. Gokuldas Tejpal college, Bombay

3. W.C .Bonnerjee

4. 72

5. A.O Hume

2nd INC session

1. year

2. where

3. President

1. 1886

2. Calcutta

3. Dadabhai Naoroji

3rd INC

1. year

2. where

3. president

4. Significance

1. 1887

2. Madras

3. Badrudding Tayubji

4. First Muslim president

4th INC

1. year

2. where

3. president

4. Significance

1. 1888

2. Allahabad

3. George Yule

4. First English President

5th INC

1. year

2. where

3. president

4. Significance

1. 1889

2. Bombay

3. William Wedderburn

4. First time women delegates

6th INC

1. year

2. Where

3. Significance

1. 1890

2.

3. Kadambani ganguly (first female indian doctor) addressed the meeting

1905 INC session

1. Where

2. President

3. Agenda

1. Benaras

2. G.K Gokhale

3. Condemned British Partition, supported swadeshi

1906 INC session

1. Where

2. President

3. Significance

1. Calcutta

2. Dadabhai Naoroji

3. Declared Swaraj/self gvt in style of dominions of Australia and Canada

1907 INC congress

1. Where

2. President

3. Significance

1. Surat

2. Rashbehari Ghosh

3. Congress split - Bal can't be president in Surat, they wanted it to be at Nagpur - Extremists wanted to

(i) Boycott everything, not just cloth and liquor

(ii) All India

Who gave

1. Safety valve theory

2. Lightening conductor theory

1. Lala Lajpat rai

2. G.K Gokhale

1. What is Indian National Social Congress (INSC)

2. Who founded it

3. Success

1. A wing under INC

2. M.G ranade

3. Age of Consent Act, 1891

lord curzon

1. Timeline

2. Imp Reactionary Policies

3. Most big Deed

4. Which good act on Agriculture

5. Commission on famines and Irrigation

6. Cooperatives

7. Agriculture research

8. Monument

1. 1899-1905

2. Official secrets Act(freedom of press curb), Indian universities Act(, Calcuta Corporation Act (no of Indians in calcutta corporation is reduced)

3. Partition of Bengal

4. punjab Land alienation act, 1900 - to revent sale of land from peasant to Landowners - because to keep punjab loyal to him

5. McDonnel and Moncrieff Commission

6. Cooperative credit societies act - without credit from moneylenders he provided alternative in Punjab

7. Agriculture research institute at Pusa, Bihar (later shifted to Delhi)

8. Ancient Monument Preservation Act

Which commisson is behind Indian Universities Act

Railegh Commission

Partition of Bengal areas

(i) before partition

(ii) After partition

(i) Bengal = Bihar+Orissa+WB+Bangladesh+NE

(ii) West Bengal = Orissa+Bihar+Westbengal (calcutta)

East bengal = bangladesh+NE (dacca capital)

Timeline of Bengal Partition

1. Decision made public in

2. Announced the partition

3. Implemented the partition

1. 1903

2. 7th july,1905

3. 16th oct, 1905

Swadeshi movement Phase 1 Moderate phase, 1903-1905

1. Strategies

2. Newspapers

3. Boycott

4. Key events - launch date

1. Consti measures,

2. Hitabadi, Sanjibani, bengalee

3. Boycott of only Foreign cloth and liquor and only in Bengal

4. Boycott Resolution + Launch of Swadeshi movement - aug 7,1905 - calcutta townhall

- 16 oct - partition implemented

Swadeshi Movement Phase 2, extremist Phase, 1905-1908

1. Key leaders and regions

2. New methods

3. Rise of 2 Samitis

4. New Industries

5. Education

1. Bengal - Bipin chandra pal

- poona/Bombay - Bal Gangadhar Tilak

- punjab - Lala lajpat Rai

- Delhi - Syed Haider raza

- madras - V.O. Chidambaram Pillai

- Aurobindo Ghosh, Ashwini kumar Datta, Raj Narain Bose

2. Boycott outside Bengal

- Beyond Foreign cloth

- Passive resistance of schools, colleges etc

3. - Swadesh Bandhab samiti by Ashwini Kumar datta (it influenced rural masses and also made parallel gvt inBangladesh)

- Swadeshi Sangam by VO Chidambaram Pillai

4. - Swadesh Steam Navigation company - ChidambaramPillai

- Bengal Chemical factory(1901) - Prafulla chndra ray

5. Bengal national college - aurobindo ghosh 1st principal

- Bengal Technical Institute

- National Council of Education (1906)

Swadeshi Movement Phase 2, extremist Phase, 1905-1908

6. Cultural revival

- songs

- religion

- art
- Swadeshi geetham, written by
- Indian society of oriental art by

6. Song - bande mataram - Bankim chandra chattarjee sung first time in 1896 session

- popularised during swadeshi

- Adopted National song by INC in 1937

- Adopted national song by constituent Assembly on 24th Jan 1950

- Amar Sonar Bangla by tagore

- Subramaniya Bharati wrote swadeshi geetham

- use of religious festivals for national awareness(tilak)

- Abaindranath tagore found Indian society of oriental art (bengals chool of art)

- Nandalal bose

Repression of swadeshi movement

1. 5 new laws

2. Arrests

1. - Seditious meetings act, 1907

- Indian Newspaper Act, 1908

- Explosive substanec act, 1908 (aftr alipore bomb conspiracy)

- Criminal law amendment act 1908

- Indian pres act, 1910

2. Tilak arrested in 1908 - 6 years jail - for sedition of his newspapaer Kesari

- Aurobindo ghosh arrest - Alipore Bomb case - 1910

- Bipin chandra pal - self imposed exile to england 1908

- Lala lajpat rai - went abroad

Swadeshi success

1. annulment

2. where

3. shift of capital

1. in 1911 - Lord Hardinge 2

2. Delhi Durbar

3. Delhi

Split of Bengal in future

1. Bihar and Orissa

2. Assam

3. Separate Bihar and orissa

1. 1912

2. 1912

3. 1936

Muslim league

1. Founded year

2. Headquarters

3. Why

4. Founders

1. 1906 at Dhaka

2. Lucknow

3. For Muslim Political Interests

4. - Nawab Salimullah

- Aga Khan iii (1st president)

Indian Council Act 1909, minto(viceroy) Morley (Secretary of state) Reforms

1. Context

2. Features

3. Legislative size at central and provincial

4. restrictions

5. Official/nonofficial majority

6. Indian in viceory council

1. Simla Deputation: Agha Khan metLord minto for separate electorates for Muslims, G.K Gokhale went to Uk and met Morley

2. - Separate electorates for Muslims

- indirect elections continued, localbodies formed electoral college and elects provincial councils whoin turn electmembers to central assembly, yet non elected majority

3. Central level - increased from 16 to 60

provincial level also increased

4. Discuss budget and can ask supplementary questions, but cannot vote

- Defence, foreign relations are still prohibited, cannot even discuss

5. Official

6. Satyendranath prasad sinha

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