(IGP) IAS Pre: GS - Indian History - Modern Indian History: Revolutionary Terrorism

• A whole generation of nationalist youth were attracted to revolutionary terrorism because they were angered by repression
• Convinced of the futility of the moderate path.
• Impatient with the inability of the extremists to either extract immediate concessions from the government or to achieve full scale mobilisation of masses.
• 1897 Chapekar brothers of Poona-Damodar and Balkrishna-assassinated two British officers.
• By 1904, V.D. Savarkar and his brother Ganesh organised Mitramela and Abhinav Bharat as secret, societies. They were co-accused in Nasik and Gwalior conspiracy cases.
• The revolutionary trend was launched in April 1908, by Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki when they threw a bomb on Kingsford.
• Arushilan and Yugantar Samities spearheaded revolutionary activities.
• In Madras, Vanchi Aivar of the Bharata Matha Association assassinated a British officer.
• In London Madan Lal Dhingra killed Curzon Wylie, an India Office official.
• Hindu Association in Portland later changed its name to Hindustan Ghadar Party.
• The Ghadar paper carried the inscription Angrezi Raj ka Dushman.
• The front page of each issue of Ghada carried the slogan Angrezi Raj ki Kacha Chittha.
• An attempt was made to defy Canadian immigration laws which forbade entry to all except those who made a ‘direct passage in their ship’. Gurdit Singh, chartered a ship Komagata Maru and with 376 Indians it set for Vancouver.
• Zimmeran Plan was formulated by Virendranath Chattopadhya, Bhupen Datta and Lala Hardyal.

Revolutionary Terrorism - Phase II

• Sachin Sanyal, Jogesh Chatterjee and Ramprasad Bismil founded Hindustan Republican Army (HRA) at Kanpur in October 1924.
• HRA aimed at organising an armed revolution and establishing a Federal Republic of the USA with a government elected on the basis of adult franchise.
• Sachin Sanyal wrote ‘Bandi Jivan’.
• Jatin Das (Sept. 1929) died after a prolonged fast of sixty three daysin jail.
• Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was founded in September, 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi under the leadership of ChandrashekharAzad. They were also influenced socialist ideas.
• Bhagat Singh and B.K. Dutt threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 to protestagainst the passage of the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill. The objectives was not to kill but to make the deaf hear.
• Bhagat Singh wrote; Why I am An Atheist.
• After raiding Chittagong Armory Surya Sen proclaimed the formation of Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Indian Republication Army which fought at Jalalabad.
• Two school girls of Comilla, Santi Ghosh and Suniti Chowdhary, shot dead the DM, Mr. Stevens.
• Kalpana Datta was arrested and tried along with Surya Sen.

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