Freedom Movements (1885 AD to 1947 AD) — Social Science STD 8 — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 8Social ScienceFreedom Movements (1885 AD to 1947 AD)5 Marks
Question
Briefly explain the revolutionary activities in India.
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Answer
$(1)$ Revolutionary activities were first started in India by Vasudev Balwant Phadke of Maharashtra. He organized the backward castes and gave them combat training.
$(2)$ The deadly plague had spread in many parts of Mumbai and Maharashtra. Rand, the Chief Plague Commissioner and his assistants harassed people at such a time. So, the angry duo known as the Chafekar brothers, Damodar Chafekar and were Balkrishna Chafekar killed Rand. Both arrested and sentenced to death.
$(3)$ Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded the revolutionary was organization called 'Mitramela' in $1900\ AD$, which was later known as 'Abhinav Bharat'. Savarkar book Indian War of Independence: $1857$ the first book in the world to be banned before its publication. He carried out revolutionary activities in London. The British Government arrested him. (He was sent to Andaman Jal on a life term. Since his health deteriorated he was shifted to India and kept under house arrest).
$(4)$ The committee of which Barindra Ghosh became the main leader later on was the 'Anushilan Samiti'. This organization made extensive efforts to spread revolutionary activities through revolutionary literature, training, etc.
$(5)$ Khudiram Bose and Praful Chandra Chaki planned to kill the magistrate Kingsford. With this objective in mind, they threw a bomb on his buggy (wagon), but instead of Kingsford, advocate Kennedy's wife and daughter who were in the of buggy were killed. Praful Chaki chose to sacrifice his life and shot himself. Khudiram Bose was sentenced to death.
$(6)$ Revolutionaries named Ramprasad 'Bismil' and Ashfaq Ullah Khan provided an excellent example of Hindu-Muslim unity. Ramprasad 'Bismil', Ashfaq Ullah Khan Roshan Singh, Rajendra Prasad, Chandrashekhar Azad. etc. took part in the Kakori Train Robbery and had looted the British treasury They were arrested and sentenced to death
$(7)$ Durgabhabhi urged women to participate i revolutionary activities. They participated by doing things like sticking posters, distributing leaflets raising money for cases to be fought in courts using guns and so on.
$(8)$ Chandrashekhar Azad had been active in revolutionary activities sinc his childhood. He took part in the Kakori Train Robbery also. He had vowed that he would be captured alive by the British became a martyr with his own pistol in a government with the British at Alfred Bagh in Allahaba in $1931\ AD.$
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