Socialist And Revolutionaries Flashcards
Rise of revolutionaries : spread of Marxism and socialist ideas
1.Rise of left wing: J nehru, subhash bose
2.critical of swarajists, Gandhi, no changers
3. Nationalism + internal oppression by landlords
4.nationalism+ anti imperialism: Purna Swaraj as goal
Rise of communism in India : Bolshevik conspiracy case
M.N.roy: founded in tashkent- first Indian to be elected to commintern
1924: S A Dange, Muzaffar Ahmed, Shaukat usmani, nalini gupta
1925: Indian communist conference kanpur
Meerut conspiracy case 1929
Revolutionary activity associations
- Hindustan republic group : punjab- UP- Bihar
- YUGANTAR and Anushilan groups
- Chittagong revolt group - suryasen
Causes of revolutionary activity
- Sudden withdrawal
- First WW- shock
- Montague Chelmsford - sham
- Not attracted to swarajists or no changers
- Belief in violent methods to free india
JC chatterjee
Surya sen
Bhagat Singh
Sukhdev
Rajguru
Chandrasekar azad
Bhagwati chadra vohra
Jaidev Kapur
Jatin das
Atmasakti
Bijoli
Sarathi
Bandi jiwan
Pather dabi
Sachin sanyal
Pather dabi
Punjab UP Bihar - activity
HRA- 1924 BY founded by Ram Prasad bismil
JC chatterjee
Sachin sanyal
Armed revolution and overthrow
Kakori robbery 1925
17 jailed
4 hanged- bismil, ashfaqullah, roshan singh, rajendra Lahiri
kakori setback
Formation of HSRA
1928
Coz kakori set back
Leadership of azad
Participants: bhagat singh, Sukhdev, Bhagwati chadra vohra
Bejoy Kumar Sinha, shiv verma, jaidev
Adopted socialism as it’s official goal
Saunders murder 1928
Lala lajpat roy- anti Simon commission protest- lathi charge - died
Bhagat singh, azad, rajguru shot dead Saunders
A leader respected by millions of people at the unworthy hands of an ordinary police officer is an insult to the nation. it was the bounded duty of young men of India to efface it.
Bomb in central leg assembly
Harmless bomb
To make the deaf hear- let people know
Why? To get arrested - voice out during trial
Courts are forum for their propaganda
HSRA leadership askd to throw bomb - batukeshwar dutt and bhagat singh
Lahore conspiracy case
Bhagat singh Sukhdev and rajguru - death sentence
Fasting : for better treatments of political prisoners in the country
JATIN DAS BECAME THE FIRST MARTYR of fasting
AZAD, BRS
Irwins train case Feb 1931- police encounter
BRS: march, hanged
Bengal
JM sengupta: Anushilan group
YUGANTAR - subhash bose
Gopinath saha attempted to assassinate Charles tegart - hanged
Chittagong armoury raid
To seize armouries and supply arms to revolutionaries
Cut telephone lines and railway link dislocation- 1930
Successful- hoisted national flag
1933: Surya sen hanged
Instilled that fire among youth- queued to join the group
Participation of women in Bengal revolutionary
Pritilata waddedar
Kalapana dutt
Santi gosh and suniti chanderi
School girls of comilla ( shot dead DM)
and Bina das - point Bank firing of governing while awarding degrees
Ideology of revolutionary
HRA manifesto
* Socialism: nationalisation
* Condemned exploitation of man by man
* Moved from individual heroic to mass politics during their last days
- Hindu Muslim unity
Every human has equal rights over the products of nature
Pjlhilosophy of the bomb
Bhagwati Charan vohra
Bhagat singh and sukhdev
Real revolutionaries are in factories and villages
Revolution could only be by masses for masses
Bharat naujawan sabha- bhagat singh
Redefined ideology
no longer equated with militancy violence individual heroic action
Not only to overthrow the British what also to end exploitation of man by man
Bhagat singh-revolution does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there a place in it for personal vendetta, it is not the cult of bomb or pistol by revolution we mean the present order of things which is based on manifest injustice must change
Struggle in India will continue so long as handful of exploiter continue to exploit labour of common people to further their own interest
Capitalism and class domination abolition
Secular-general feeling of tolerance among people religion is a matter of personal belief to be a revolutionary one required immense moral strength criticism and independent thinking .
