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Timeline of Indian Freedom Struggle

Freedom is not one day process, lot of fight, loss, and sacrifices took place... One who had done a small sacrifice can definitely understand what it is..!

Year	Indian Freedom Struggle: Important Events
1857	Mutiny against the British
1885	Indian National Congress is founded by A.O. Hume
1905	Partition of Bengal announced
1906	Muslim League was founded at Decca on 31st December.
1908	Khudiram Bose was executed on 30th April.
1908	Tilak was sentenced to six years on charges of sedition on 22nd July.
1909	Minto-Morley Reforms of Indian Councils Act - 21st May.
1911	Delhi durbar held. Partition of Bengal is cancelled.
1912	New Delhi established as the new capital of India
1912	A Bomb was thrown on Lord Hardinge on his state entry into Delhi on 23rd December.
1914	The Ghadar Party was formed at San Francisco on 1st November
1914	Tilak was released from jail on 16th June.
1914	Outbreak of the 1st World War 4th August
1914	Komagatamaru ship reaches Budge Budge (Calcutta port) on 29the September.
1915	Mahatma Gandhi arrived in India on 9th Jan
1915	Gopal Krishna Gokhale died on 19th February.
1916	Tilak founded Indian Home Rule League with its headquarters at Poona on 28th April.
1916	Annie Besant started another Home Rule League on 25th September.
1917	Mahatma Gandhi launches the Champaran campaign in Bihar to focus attention on the grievances of indigo planters in April
1917	The Secretary of State for India, Montague, declares that the goal of the British government in India is introduction of Responsible Government on 20th August.

Honorary titles of Indian leaders

The following is the list of  

honorary titles given to various Indian leaders during Indian independence struggle.

Awesome Answers In IAS Examination

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Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23rd Rank Opted for IFS)

Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands. (Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. you will never find an elephant with one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs, He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple ?
A: The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Dinner.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A: Liquid (UPSC 33 Rank)