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GandhiAhmedabad Mill strike-1918Background:• The immediate reason for the industrial conflict was the withdrawal of plague-bonus. This withdrawal came at a time when the workers were already facing hard times from unusual high prices caused by World War One, and there
Read More About It...Growth of Indian Nationalism:Several factors contributed to the emergence of Indian nationalism which can be analyzed as follows: (1)Political and Administrative Unity: One of the significant results of the British conquest of India was
Read More About It...Simon CommissionThe Indian Statutory Commission, popularly known as the Simon Commission (after the name of its chairman Sir John Simon),was a group of seven British Members of Parliament of United Kingdom that had been dispatched to India in 1928 to study constitutional reform
Read More About It...Rowlatt Act & Jallianwala Bagh Massacre|Rowlatt Satyagraha was in response to the British government enacting the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act. Gandhiji called for a countrywide campaign against the Rowlatt Act.Rowla
Read More About It...Swaraj PartyThe Swaraj Party or the Congress-Khilafat Swarajya Party was formed on 1 January 1923 by C R Das and Motilal Nehru.The formation of the Swaraj Party came after various significant events like the withdrawal of Non-cooperation Movement, the government of India act
Read More About It...The coming of Europeans to India| Commercial contacts between India and Europeans were very old via the land route but there were various shortcomings of Land-based routes like multiple taxations, theft, conflicts with tribes/kingdoms etc.Therefore in 1494
Read More About It...Revolutionary ActivitiesThe revolutionaries considered, but did not find it practical at that stage to implement, the options of creating a violent mass revolution throughout the country or of trying to subvert the loyalties of the Army. Instead, they opted to follow in the foot
Read More About It...SURAT SPLITBackground of the Surat SplitThe years from 1885-1905 was known as the period of the moderates because they dominated the Indian National Congress.The Moderates used petition, prayers, meetings, leaflets, pamphlets, memorandum and delegations to present their
Read More About It...Poorna Swarajya Resolution: Lahore Session 1929 When the Nehru Report came before the annual session of the Congress in Calcutta in December 1928, the left lashed it out on the fact that it did not want the complete Independence and wanted only a dominion status&nbs
Read More About It...The Indian National Congress (INC) Formed in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, a retired British civil servant.Other founding members include Dadabhai Naoroji (Born on September 4, 1825) and Dinshaw Wacha.The first session was held in Bombay under the presidency of W
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