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Mitra Mela, a secret organization of the revolutionaries was established by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at Nashik in 1899. It was later renamed Abhinav Bharat Society in 1904. It believed in overthrow of British rule by armed rebellion and therefore carried out a few assassinations of British officials, after which the Savarkar brothers were convicted and imprisoned.

Rash Behari Bose threw a bomb on Viceroy Lord Hardinge and this event in history is called Delhi Conspiracy case of Delhi-Lahore Conspiracy.It took place in 1912 and was an attempt to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, on the occasion of transferring the capital of British India from Calcutta to New Delhi.

World Socialist Conference held at Stuggart in 1907 dealt largely with matters of militarism, colonialism, and women's suffrage. Madam Bhikaji Cama attended this conference and highlighted the plight of Indians under the British rule. She appealed for human rights, equality and autonomy from Great Britain

Rash Behari Bose succeeded in managing his escape to Japan in 1915 after the failure of the Ghadar movement. The Ghadar movement revolutionaries tried to trigger a mutiny in the British Indian army but failed. Most of the revolutionaries were arrested.

Anusheelan Samiti was a secret revolutionary society formed by Pramathanath Mitra in Bengal. It challenged the British rule in India by engaging in militant nationalism including bombings, assassinations, and politically-motivated violence. Some of its members were Sri Aurobindo , Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das, Surendranath Tagore, Bagha Jatin, Barindra Ghosh etc.

Surya Sen was a revolutionary noted for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid In Chittagong of Bengal in British India. He led a group of revolutionaries in 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury. It was an attempt to isolate Chittagong from the rest of British India by cutting all channels of communication.

Bhagat Singh was a socialist who believed in creating an egalitarian society based on social justice and equality. He was deeply influenced by the Russian Revolution and its various leaders like Lenin and Trotsky.

India House was established as a student residence in London by Shyamji Krishna Verma. It used to grant scholarships to Indian youths for higher studies in England and promote nationalist views among the Indian students. It existed between 1905 and 1910.

Ghadar party was an extremist revolutionary organisation founded by Sikhs in the US and Canada with the aim of securing India's independence from British rule. It was founded by Lala Hardayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna in the year 1913. The party had its headquarters in San Francisco. Its key members were Bhai Parmanand, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah, Rashbehari Bose and Gulab Kaur.

Curzon Wyllie, an Indian army officer, and later an official of the British Indian Government was shot by Madanlal Dhingra. Madanlal Dhingra was an Indian revolutionary independence activist. This act was one of the first acts of revolution in the Indian independence movement in the 20th century.