Tag: revolutionary movement and important revolutionaries

Khudiram Bose was hanged on August 11, 1908. He was sentenced to death on the charge conducting a series of the bomb attack.

Curzon Wyllie was murdered by an Indian student Madanlal Dhingra. Dhingra shot Wyllie at a Bloomsbury lecture hall in July 1909. He shot at Curzon Wyllie with V.D. Savarkar and some other revolutionaries. He claimed that he had murdered Curzon as a patriotic act and in revenge of the inhuman killing of Indians by British Government in India.

Abhinav Bharat Society was a secret society founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in 1904. It believed in armed revolution. It carried out a few assassinations of British officials, after which the Savarkar brothers were convicted and imprisoned. The society was formally disbanded in 1952.

On 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic 'Dandi Salt March', where he broke the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government. Followed by seventy-nine ashramites, Gandhi embarked on his march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi that is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

On 6th April 1930, after a prayer, Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, ‘with this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire’. He then boiled it in seawater, producing illegal salt. He asked his thousands of followers to do the same and broke the salt law.

It suggested that if the cause was true, if the struggle was against injustice, then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor.

Winston Churchill had described Gandhiji "as a seditious Middle Temple Lawyer, now, posing as a half naked fakir".

The non-cooperation programme was adopted at the Nagpur session of the Congress in December 1920.

 The idea of satyagraha emphasised the power of truth and the need to search for truth. It suggested that if the cause was true, if the struggle was against injustice, then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor. People – including the oppressors – had to be persuaded to see the truth, instead of being forced to accept truth through the use of violence. By this struggle, truth was bound to ultimately triumph.

The Jallianwala Bagh mass killings happened on 13th April, 1919. The massacre took place when General Dyer ordered British Indian Army troops to open fire on the unarmed civilians who had gathered in the park.