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Revolutionary movements

Revolutionary movements for UPSC Prelims and Mains, taught in 2 parts. Each part has tables, exam traps, a recap and practice questions, and every paragraph is explained in Telugu.

Quick recap: Quick recap: Revolutionary movements on one page

Both parts of the chapter condensed for quick revision: why revolutionary nationalism grew, the societies of Maharashtra and Bengal, Muzaffarpur, Alipore and the Delhi bomb, the revolutionaries abroad and the Ghadar Party, the wartime plots, the HRA and Kakori, the HSRA and Bhagat Singh, the Chittagong raid, the women revolutionaries, the movement's decline and Udham Singh.

Parts of this chapter

Part 1

The first phase, 1897–1918: Maharashtra, Bengal and the revolutionaries abroad

Why young nationalists turned to secret societies and arms after 1905, the Chapekars and Savarkar's Abhinav Bharat, the Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar, Muzaffarpur and the Alipore case, the Delhi bomb of 1912, India House, Dhingra and Madame Cama, the Ghadar Party and the Komagata Maru, the failed rising of 1915, the wartime plots in Berlin and Kabul, Bagha Jatin, and the laws that answered them. Part 2

The second phase, 1922–1934: HRA, HSRA, Bhagat Singh and Chittagong

Why armed action revived after Non-Cooperation was called off, the Hindustan Republican Association and the Kakori action, the turn to socialism in the HSRA, the Saunders killing and the Assembly bombs, Jatin Das, the Lahore conspiracy case and the executions of 1931, Azad's death, Surya Sen and the Chittagong armoury raid, the women revolutionaries of Bengal, the movement's decline and its relation with the Congress, and Udham Singh.

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