Emergence of Swarajists, Socialist Ideas, 379 Revolutionary Activities and Other New Forces Flashcards
if the government did not respond to the nationalists’
demands, then they would obstruct the working of these councils
Swarajists
Swarajists
C.R. Das, Motilal Nehru and Ajmal Khan
The ‘No-changers’ opposed council entry,
C. Rajagopalachari, Vallabhbhai Patel, Rajendra
Prasad and M.A. Ansari
defeat of the Swarajists’ proposal of ‘ending or mending’ the councils at
the Gaya session of the Congress (December
1922).
Congress-Khilafat Swarajya Party or simply Swarajist Party, with
C.R. Das as the
president and Motilal Nehru as one of the secretaries.
(endorsed at the Belgaum session of the Congress 1924
Swarajists would work in the councils as an integral part of the Congress
Split amongst swarajists among
Responsivist-Non-responsivist lines
The Responsivists among Swarajists—
Lala Lajpat Rai, Madan Mohan Malaviya and N.C. Kelkar advocated cooperation with the government and holding of office wherever possible. Besides they also wanted to protect the so-called Hindu interests
was elected speaker of Central
Legislative Assembly in 1925
Vithalbhai Patel
Public Safety Bill in 1928 which was aimed at
empowering the Government to deport undesirable and subversive foreigners (because the Government was alarmed by the spread of socialist and communist ideas and believed that a crucial role was being played by the British and other foreign activists being sent by the Commintern
The Communist Party of India (CPI) was formed in
1920 in
Tashkent (now, the capital of Uzbekistan) by M.N.
Roy, Abani Mukherji
were jailed in the Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case 1924
S.A. Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed, Shaukat Usmani, Nalini Gupta
In 1928, presided over the All Bengal Students’ Conference
Jawaharlal Nehru
All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) founded in 1920.
Lala Lajpat Rai was its first president and Dewan Chaman Lal its general secretary
The major strikes
during the 1920s included those in
Kharagpur Railway Workshops, Tata Iron and Steel Works (Jamshedpur), Bombay Textile Mills , and Buckingham Carnatic Mills
In 1923, the first May Day was celebrated in India in
Madras
Unionist Party under
Fazl-i-Hussain (Punjab
In 1923, the first May Day was celebrated in India in
Madras
Bandi Jiwan by
Sachin Sanyal