Sen | came in confrontation with Devendranath Tagore. Consequently the Brahmo Samaj |
was split into the Brahmo Samaj of India under him & Adi Brahmo Samaj under | |
Devendranath. He opposed child marriage but married her own minor daughter to | |
Maharaja of Cooch-Behar. Hence there was a further split into Neo Brahmo Samaj | |
under him & Sadharan Brahmo Samaj | |
Ishwar Chandra | Became principal of Sanskrit college in Calcutta. Opened the Sanskrit college for |
Vidyasagar | non Brahmin students. He founded ‘Bethune School at Calcutta’ to encourage |
female education. | |
Bankim Chandra | First graduate of Calcutta University which was estd in 1857 based on the lines of |
Macaulay Minute. He became a deputy collector. Wrote the famous Bande Matram | |
(Anand Math) & published Banga Darshan magazine. | |
Ramakrishna | Became a priest in the temple of Goddess Kali at Dakshineshwar. |
Paramhamsa | (1836-86) |
Swami | In 1893 he attened the Parliament of Religions at Chicago. In 1897 he established |
Vivekanand | the Ramakrishna Mission. His disciple, Sister Nivedita even helped many |
(1863-1902) | revolutionaries from Bengal directly. |
Swami Dayananda | Known in early life as Mul Shankar & born in Gujarat. Received his education at |
1824-83 | the feet of Swami Virajananda at Mathura. Founded Arya Samaj in 1875 based on |
a set of 28 principles (later 10). He estd the HQ of Arya Samaj at Lahore. Passed | |
away on Diwali at Jodhpur following the mixing of glass powder in his drink. | |
Through his Satyartha Prakasha he emphasized Vedas. He laid emphasis on the | |
worship of a formless god & abandonment of idolatory. He emphasized on | |
Ashrama system of education. He stressed on swadeshi, swadharma, swabhasha & | |
swarajya. He considered Vedas as infallible. | |
Jyotibha Phule | In 1873 he founded Satya Shodhak Samaj. Gave testimony before Hunter |
Commission against Christian missionaries. Later given the title ‘Mahatma’. | |
Sayyid Ahmad | In 1875 founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh which later |
Khan | became Aligarh University. Opposed polygamy, purdah, abolition of the practice of |
easy divorce, reform in madrasa. | |
Freedom Fighters | |
Lokmanya Tilak | Introduced the celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi & Shivaji festivals. Paticipated in |
1856-1920 | Home Rule Movement in 1916. Called by Britishers as ‘Biggest Traitor’ & ‘Father |
of Indian dissatisfaction’ | |
Lala Lajpat Rai | Sher-e-Punjab. Was sent to Jail at Mandey on the charges of seditious activities. |
Sri Aurobindo | His development of National education & editing of Bande Mataram (started by |
Ghosh | Bipin Chandra Pal) gave momentum to Bengal partition movement. Left Baroda to |
work in the National College in Calcutta. | |
Chapekar Brothers | Chapekar Brothers – Damodar & Balakrishna. Killed two British officials Rand & |
Aryst. Celcbrated Shivaji & Ganesh Utsavs. | |
Savarkar Brothers | Ganesh Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar & Narayana Savarkar. V.D. |
Savarkar organized the New India Association in London. Organizing lectures at | |
the India House founded by Shyamji Krishna Verma. He was linked to the | |
assassination of Jackson at Aurangabad. Sentenced to imprisonment in the | |
Andamans from 1911-24. | |
Shyamji Krishna | India House had become centre of V.D Savarkar, Sardar Singh Rana, Madam |
Verma | Bhikaji kama & Madan Lal Dhingra. |
Madam Kama | Represented India in the Interinational Conference at Stutteguard in Germany. |
Madan Lal | He short dead the assistant of the Secretary of State Curzon Wyllie. Gopal Krishna |
Dhingra | Gokhale clled it as a heinous act meant to spoil the name of India. |
Chandra Shekhar | Involved in the assassination of Saunders (officer who ordered the Lathi Charge in |
Azad | which Lala Lajpat was killed), alongwith Bhagat Singh & Rajguru. He had chalked |
out a plan to blow up the train in which the Viceroy Lord Irwin was traveling. He | |
was killed in a police encounter at Alfred Park in Allahabad. | |
Harkishen Talwar | Shot the Governor of Punjab but the latter escaped with injuries only Later |
Harkishen was hanged. | |
Bhagat Singh | In association with Chhabil Das & Yashpal he had founded the Punjab Naujavan |
Bharat Sabha. | |
Rani Gaidinliu | Lead the Nagas in the revolt. Yadunaga was the other leader. |
Subhas Chandra | Passed the Civils in 1920 but preferred to serve the nationalist cause. He was |
Bose | elected the Mayor of Calcutta in 1923 but soon arrested & sent to Mandalay. |
Elected President at the Haripura session of Congress in 1938. He left for Kabul | |
along with his friend Bhagat Ram. From there he went to Germany & met Hitler. | |
He was first addressed as Netaji in Germany. | |
Udham Singh | Whilst living in England in 1940, Singh shot dead Sir Michael O’Dwyer, former |
Governor General of the Punjab. |
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