Tag: national awakening and establishment of political organisations in india

Turban is manually tied headdress worn by men. It is a symbol of honour and respect. Turban-wearing traditions can be found in the Indian Subcontinent, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Middle East, the Near East, Central Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, North America, and parts of the Swahili Coast.

• Sardar Vallabhai Patel is called "The Iron  Man of India"
  
  • Due to integration of Princely states to Indian Union after Mountbatten plan announcement on June 3, 1947.
  • Patel started operation princes on July 25, 1947
    
  • All the princely states signed instrument of accession by August 15, 1947 except Hyderabad, Junagarh and Kashmir.
    
    

Annual festivals in memory of Shivaji and Lord Ganesha were started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. These festivals were organized to build a national spirit among the common people in opposition to colonial rule. But the major drawback of these events was that although they were meant to be a way to oppose colonial rule, they also contributed to religious tensions.

Banaras Hindu University is a public central university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. It was founded in 1916 by Madan Mohan Malaviya. He chose Banaras as the site, because of the centuries old tradition of learning, wisdom and spirituality inherent to the place.

The congress was divided into two camps-Extremist and Moderates at the Surat session of 1907. The Moderates believed in the constitutional methods of protests like petitions, prayers, meetings,etc. Extremists, on the other hand, believed in agitation, strikes and boycotts to force their demands. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an extremist and was opposed to the moderates' method of petitions especially towards the fight for self-government.

 The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. The founding fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement were from Socialist Yugoslavia, India, Indonesia, Egypt and Ghana. From India, Jawaharlal Nehru was a major propounder of the group. It was established in 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Jatin Das was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary. he went on a hunger strike along with other revolutionaries to protest the ill-treatment meted out to the political prisoners. He died in Lahore jail after a 63-day hunger strike.

'Swaraj is my birth right' was said by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. He was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist. After the murder of Lt. Ayerst by Chapekar brothers, Tilak was charged with incitement to murder and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. When he emerged from the prison he adopted this slogan which was coined by Kaka Baptista.

The Bande Mataram was an English language newspaper founded in 1905 by Bipin Chandra Pal and later edited by Sri Aurobindo. It was first published on 6 August 1906.

The congress was divided into two camps-Extremist and Moderates at the Surat session of 1907. The Moderates believed in the constitutional methods of protests like petitions, prayers, meetings,etc. Extremists, on the other hand, believed in agitation, strikes and boycotts to force their demands. Tilak became the leader of extremists group in the Congress. He was very critical of the moderate group of leaders of Indian National Congress.