Monday, 17 June 2013
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
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Indian Freedom Struggle: Important Events
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1857
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Mutiny against the British
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1885
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Indian National Congress is founded by A.O. Hume
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1905
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Partition of Bengal announced
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1906
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Muslim League was founded at Decca on 31st December.
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1908
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Khudiram Bose was executed on 30th April.
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1908
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Tilak was sentenced to six years on charges of sedition on 22nd July.
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1909
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Minto-Morley Reforms of Indian Councils Act - 21st May.
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1911
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Delhi durbar held. Partition of Bengal is cancelled.
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1912
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New Delhi established as the new capital of India
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1912
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A Bomb was thrown on Lord Hardinge on his state entry into Delhi on 23rd December.
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1914
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The Ghadar Party was formed at San Francisco on 1st November
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1914
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Tilak was released from jail on 16th June.
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1914
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Outbreak of the 1st World War 4th August
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1914
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Komagatamaru ship reaches Budge Budge (Calcutta port) on 29the September.
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1915
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Mahatma Gandhi arrived in India on 9th Jan
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1915
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Gopal Krishna Gokhale died on 19th February.
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1916
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Tilak founded Indian Home Rule League with its headquarters at Poona on 28th April.
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1916
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Annie Besant started another Home Rule League on 25th September.
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1917
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Mahatma Gandhi launches the Champaran campaign in Bihar to focus attention on the grievances of indigo planters in April
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1917
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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.
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Maoism in India - a brief report
The latest issue of Monde Diplomatique (English edition) has given extremely useful information about the successes of the Maoist movement in India, about which one generally hears very little - as indeed one heard very little about the Nepalese Maoist movement until it had effectively conquered 80% of the country.
Many people assumed that the Naxalite movement of the late 1960's simply died away, but far from it. Inspired by the Naxalite uprising in Bengal, “armed Maoist groups sprang up in the jungle and remote countryside. Their military activities were sporadic until September 2004 when the two main movements - the People’s War Group in central India and the Maoist Communist Centre of India, which is active in Bihar - joined forces to create a single, banned, Maoist party ...
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