Tag: civics

PM Pookoya Tangal was the President of Khilafat committee in Kerala. The Khilafat movement was a political protest campaign launched by Muslims of India to influence the British government not to abolish the Ottoman Caliphate. In India, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar and his brother Maulana Shaukat Ali along with some other Muslim leaders created an All India Khilafat Committee, at Lucknow. The movement collapsed when the caliphate was abolished in 1924.

Chettoor Sankaran Iyer was the President of the Indian National Congress in the 1897 session held at Amravati. Until present, he is the only Keralite to hold the post. He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council and also as a permanent judge in the Madras High Court.

Anushilan Samiti was one of the secret revolutionary organisations operating in Bengal in the first quarter of the 20th century. It was founded by Satish Chandra Basu. The people associated with this samiti were Sri Aurobindo , Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das, Surendranath Tagore, Jatindranath Banerjee, Bagha Jatin, etc.

The Kakori conspiracy was the most important action of the Hindustan Republic Association (HRA). The revolutionaries held up the 8-Down train travelling from Shahjahanpur to Lucknow at Kakori, an obscure village near Lucknow and looted its official railway cash. Government crackdown after Kakori led to arrests of many, of whom 17 were jailed, 4 transported for life and 4 - Bismil, Ashfaqullah, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri were hanged.

During the Freedom struggle, some of the radicals set themselves for armed revolution. They were called as Revolutionary Nationalists. Some noteworthy revolutionaries were Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Khudiram Bose, Chandrashekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh.

The Kakori conspiracy was the most important action of the Hindustan Republic Association (HRA). The revolutionaries held up the 8-Down train travelling from Shahjahanpur to Lucknow at Kakori, an obscure village near Lucknow and looted its official railway cash. Government crackdown after Kakori led to arrests of many, of whom 17 were jailed, 4 transported for life and 4 - Bismil, Ashfaqullah, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri were hanged.

Anushilan Samiti was one of the secret revolutionary organisations operating in Bengal in the first quarter of the 20th century. It was the first revolutionary organisation in Bengal and was founded by Satish Chandra Basu. The people associated with this samiti were Sri Aurobindo , Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das, Surendranath Tagore, Jatindranath Banerjee, Bagha Jatin, etc.

During the Freedom struggle, some of the radicals set themselves for armed revolution. They were called as Revolutionary Nationalists. V.D. Savarkar setup a secret organisation called Mitra Mela in 1899.