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*Newspaper - ‘Angrezi Raj Ka Dushman’ (An enemy of the British rule)
*Its aim was to overthrow the British rule by using force and free India from foreign domination.
*The headquarters of Ghadar party was in San Francisco.
Home Rule Movement-1916
*The term ‘Home Rule’ was adopted from Ireland.
*The National Movement of India which became popular during the first world war is
Ans : Home Rule Movement (1916)
*‘The attainment of Swaraj’ was their main aim.
*Self Government for India, work for National Education, Social and Political Reforms etc were another important aims of Home Rule League.
*The Central Hindu School at Benarus was founded by Annie Besant.
*It later became Benarus Hindu University.
* Annie Besant started the Home Rule " Movement at Adayar near Madras.
*Tilak formed Home Rule Movement,at Pune.
Titles and Leaders
*Lokmanya - Bala Gangadhara Tilak
*Loknayak - Jayaprakash Narayan
*Rajaji - C. Raja Gopalachari
*Chachaji, Panditji - Jawaharlal Nehru
*Nightingale of India - Sarojini Naidu
*Lion of Punjab - Lala Lajpath Rai
*Gurudev - Rabindra Nath Tagore
*Netaji - Subhash Chandra Bose
*Frontier Gandhi - Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
*Light of Asia - Gautam Buddha
*Indian Nepoleam - Samudra Gupta
Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
*Champaran’ Satyagraha was MahatmaGandhi’s first satyagraha in India.
*It took place at Champaran in Bihar in 1917.
*The reason for the satyagraha was the European planters demanded high rents and illegal dues from the peasants in order to maximise their profits before the peasants could shift to other Crops.
*Gandhiji started satyagraha against this and British agreed the demands of the fanners.
