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Modern Indian History
Books & Journals

 

Name Founder Language Aim / Nature
Kudi Arasu E.V. Ramaswamy Tamil Democracy for Dravidians
Socialist (Bombay) S.A. Dange   Communist Journal
Langal

Labour Swarajaya Party (Renamed Peasants
& workers Party) Nazrul Islam, Muzaffar
Ahmed Hemant Kr. Sarkar

 Bengali Communist Journal
Ganabani Do Do Communist Journal
Kranti Workers & Peasants Party (Bombay) S.S.
Mirjkar, K.M. Jogelekar, S.V. Ghate		 Marathi Do
Kirti Santokh Singh (Ghadarist) Punjab Dissemina- tion of revolution- ary spirit
Pather Sarat Chandra   Bible of revolutiona- ries
Dabi Chatterji    
Bandi

 

Jivan (Bengal)		 Sachin Sanyal   Bible of revolutiona-ries
Pakhtun Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan   Political Monthly
Harijan Mahatma Gandhi   Weekly
Nibandha- mala Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar   Anti-British
Tahzid-Al- Akhlaq Sir Sayyad Ahmed Khan   Literary and Philoso- phical (Social-issues)
Nil-Darpan Dinbandhu Mitra   On the miserable conditions of indigo peasants
Sanjivini Krishna Kr. Mitra   Weekly, suggested boycott of British goods first during Swadeshi movement
Dawn Satischandra
Mukherji		    
New India Bipin Pal   Revolution- ary National-ism
Bande Matram
(Paris)		 Madam Cama   Do
Mitramela Savarkar Brothers   Do
Maharashtra      
Punjabi Lajpat Rai   Do
Sandhya Brahmobandhab Bengali Do
(Bengal) Upadhayaya    
Yugantar (Bengal) Barinder Kumar Ghosh &
Bhupendra Nath Dutta		 Bengali Do
Gora R.N. Tagore Bengali  
Ghare Baire R.N. Tagore Bengali  
Bharat Mata (Lahore) Ajit Singh    
Tenets of the New Party B.G. Tilak    
Comrade (Calcutta) Md. Ali    
Al-Hilal (Calcutta) Abdul Kalam Azad    


 

Rowlatt Satyagraha-(1919)

All-India Satyagraha organized by Gandhi over the passing of a black act, the Rowlatt Act aiming at restricting the Civil rights of the Indians. It provided for detention without trial for a maximum of two years, a system of special courts etc. it was withdrawn following violence in Ahmedabad.

Forests Satyagraha-(1921-22)

Organised by Congress leaders over the issue of tax relaxation and forest-restriction at Polad in Guntur and Rayachoti in Cuddapah (Andhra Pradesh).

Nagpur Flag Satyagraha-(1923)

Organized against the prohibition on use of Congress Flag in certain areas of the city of Nagpur. It did not exhibit much vigour and ended in a compromise.

Vaikom Satyagraha - (1924-25)

First Satyagraha organized over the issue of temple-entry in Travancore-an expresion of assertion of rights of low caste Exhavas and Ollyas. Carried on under the leadership of T.K. Madhavan and K. Kelappan.

Bardoli Satyagraha-(1928)

Organized by Vallabhbhai Patel at Bardoli (Gujarat) against the 30% increase over the existing land revenue (Later reduced to 21.97%). Resulted in the reduction of land revenue to 6.3%.

Dharsana Satyagraha - (1930)

Organised by Sarojini Naidu, Imam Saheb and Maniklal Naidu during the Civil Disobedience Movement.

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