Tag: armed revolutionary movement

Anusheelan Samiti was a secret revolutionary society formed by Pramathanath Mitra in Bengal. It challenged the British rule in India by engaging in militant nationalism including bombings, assassinations, and politically-motivated violence. Some of its members were Sri Aurobindo , Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das, Surendranath Tagore, Bagha Jatin, Barindra Ghosh etc.

Surya Sen was a revolutionary noted for leading the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid In Chittagong of Bengal in British India. He led a group of revolutionaries in 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury. It was an attempt to isolate Chittagong from the rest of British India by cutting all channels of communication.

Bhagat Singh was a socialist who believed in creating an egalitarian society based on social justice and equality. He was deeply influenced by the Russian Revolution and its various leaders like Lenin and Trotsky.

India House was established as a student residence in London by Shyamji Krishna Verma. It used to grant scholarships to Indian youths for higher studies in England and promote nationalist views among the Indian students. It existed between 1905 and 1910.

Ghadar party was an extremist revolutionary organisation founded by Sikhs in the US and Canada with the aim of securing India's independence from British rule. It was founded by Lala Hardayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna in the year 1913. The party had its headquarters in San Francisco. Its key members were Bhai Parmanand, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah, Rashbehari Bose and Gulab Kaur.

Curzon Wyllie, an Indian army officer, and later an official of the British Indian Government was shot by Madanlal Dhingra. Madanlal Dhingra was an Indian revolutionary independence activist. This act was one of the first acts of revolution in the Indian independence movement in the 20th century.

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.