Indian Freedom Struggle

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1911:

1. Capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi.


2. The partition of Bengal was taken back.
1912:
1. Bomb thrown on Lord Hardinge in Chandini Chowk, Delhi by Rashbehari
Bose and Sachindra Sanyal.
History is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. It is
1913:
an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory,
1. Ghadar party formed at San Francisco to organise a rebellion in India to
discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of
overthrow the British rule.
information about these events. Here, we are giving timeline of Indian
1914:
Freedom Movement from 1885 to 1947 for general awareness.
1. First World War started.
1915:
Timeline of Indian Freedom Movement from 1885 to 1. Returning of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa.
1947 2. Formation of Hindu Mahasabha by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
1916:
1885: 1. Gandhiji formed Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad
1. Formation of Indian National Congress. First session held at Bombay on 2. Home Rule league founded by Tilak with its headquarters at Poona
28th December attended by 72 delegates. (Indian home rule league of India).
2. Lord Randolph Churchill becomes Secretary of State for India. 3. Another Home Rule League started by Annie Besant ay Adyar, Madras
1905: 4. Foundation of Banaras Hindu University by Pandit Madan Mohan
1. Partition of Bengal announced by Curzon. Malaviya, Lucknow part.
1906: 1917:
1. British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time. 1. Mahatma Gandhi launches the Champaran Satyagraha.
2. Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the th Non- 2. Montague, the secretary of State for India, declares that the goal of the
Violence movement in South Africa. British government in India is the introduction of responsible government.
3. Muslimm league founded at Dacca by Agah Khan the Nawab of Dacca and 3. Lucknow session of Congress: Extremist were requested to join INC,
Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk. 4. Lucknow Pact- INC & ML
1907: 1918:
1. Congress spilt at Surat session where Congress split into two part- part 1. First all-India Depressed Class conference was held.
Moderates and Extremists.. Extremist leaft Cong
Congress. 2. Rowlatt (sedition) committee submits its reports. Rowlatt Bill introduced
2. Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Sigh deported to Mandalay following riots in the on February 16, 1919.
canal colony of Punjab. 3. Kheda Satyagraha
1908: 1919:
1. Khudiram Bose was executed. 1. Anti-Rowlatt Satyagraha: M. K Gandhi started campaign against
2. Tilak sentenced to six years imprisonment on charges of sedition. Rowlatt bill and set up Satyagraha Sabha 24th February AD 1919 at
1909: Bombay. During this agitation, M.K Gandhi given famous quote “It is my firm
1. Morley-Minto
Minto Reforms or the Indian Council Act 1909 announced.
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belief that we shall obtain salvation only through suffering and not by 1. Nehru Report for a new constitution of India.
reforms dropping on us from the English they use brute, we soul force”. 1929:
2. Jallianwala Bagh tragedy and the great Amritsar massacre. 1. All Parties Muslim Conference formulates the “fourteen points” under the
3. Montague Chelmsford Reform or the Government of India Act, 1919 leadership of Jinnah.
announced. 2. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt thrown bomb in the central
1920: legislative Assembly to protest against the Public Safety Bill 1929.
1. First meeting of All Indian Trade Union Congress (AITUC) held at 3. Jatin Das died in Jail after 64 days of fast.
Bombay presided over by Lala Lajpat Rai. 4. Lord Irwin’s announcement that the goal of British policy in India was the
2. Indian National Congress (INC) adopts the Non-cooperation resolution. grant of domination status.
2 Sessions- (Kolkata Special Session, Regular Session @ Nagpur) 5. Lahore session of the Congress under Jawaharlal Nehru adopts the goal
3. Moderates left congress for supporting Montague Chelmsford Reform or of complete independence (Poorna Swaraj) for India.
the Government of India Act, 1919 and called themselves as “Liberals” and 1930:
established a political party- Indian Liberal Federation 1. Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the tricolour of India on the banks of Ravi in
1921: Lahore.
1. Permanent Advisory Council of Princes inaugurated; Council of State and 2. Gandhiji’s 11 demands letter to Viceroy
Legislative Assembly inaugurated. 3. 26 Jan 1930 First Independence Day observed.
2. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, arrives in India. Upon his 4. Working committee of INC meets at Sabarmati and passed the Civil
arrival in Bombay there is widespread agitation. He was greeted with empty Disobediences Movement with his epic Dandi march.
streets (The agitation was non-violent. 5. Mahatma Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement with his
3. T K Madhavan met Mahatma Gandhi at Tirunelveli, to discuss on Vaikom epic Dandi march.
Satyagraha, a struggle against untouchability in Hindu society. 6. First Round table conference begins in London to consider the report of
4. Moplah Revolt at Kerala by Muslims. Simon Commission for the future constitutional set-up in India.
1922: 1931:
1. Chauri Chaura incident which led to the suspension of the Non- 1. Gandhi Irwin pact signed. Civil Disobedience movement suspended.
cooperation movement. 2. Chandrashekhar Azad Death at Alfred Park, Allahabad.
2. Second Moplah uprising, Malabar coast, Kerala. 3. Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru executed (in Lahore Case).
3. Vishwa Bharati University started by Rabindranath Tagore. 4. Second Round Table conference begins Mahatma Gandhi arrives in
1923: London to attend it.
1. Congress Khilaphat Swaraj Party/ Swarajist party founded by 1932:
Chittaranjan Das & Motilal Nehru and others. 1. British Prime Minister Ramsay Mac Donald announces the Communal
1925: Awards giving separate electorate.
1. Death of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das. Swaraj Party was dissolved 2. Gandhi’s fast unto death. 19th Sept 1932 to 25th Sept 1932.
Motilal Nehru rejoined INC 3. Poona pact signed by which the Harijans get reserved seats in place of
2. Kakori Conspiracy on 9th Aug 2020 by HSRA revolutionaries. separate electorate.
1927: 4. Third Round table Conference begins at London.
1. Appointment of the Simon Commission for Deciding Indian Statute. 1935:
1928: 1. Government of India Act passed.
INDIAN HISTORY-FREEDOM STRUGGLE CHRONOLOGY IMP EVENTS BY AAPATIL INDIAN HISTORY-FREEDOM STRUGGLE CHRONOLOGY IMP EVENTS BY AAPATIL
1937: 1. Subhas Chandra Bose took over the leadership of Indian National Army
1. Elections held in India under the Act of 1935. (INA) and proclaims formation of the ‘Provisional Government of free India’
2. The Indian National Congress forms minsters in seven provinces. at Singapore.
1938: 2. Karachi session of the Muslim League adopts the slogan of ‘Divide and
1. Haripura session of the Indian National Congress. Subhash Chandra Quit’.
Bose elected the congress president. 3. The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata.
1939: 4. Kushal Konwar, Indian National Congress President of Golaghat, First
1. Tripuri session of Indian National Congress. martyr of Quit India Movement.
2. Subhas Chandra Bose resigns the presidentship of the Indian National 1944
Congress & formation of Forward Block 1. Wavell calls Simla conferences in a bid to form the executive Council of
3. Second World War begins. Viceroy declares that India too is at war. Indian political leaders
4. Congress ministries in the provinces resign against the war policy of the 1946:
British Government. 1. Royal Air Force Mutiny of 1946 of British and Indian Air Force units.
5. Muslim League observes the resignation of the congress ministries as 2. British Prime Minister Attlee announces the Cabinet Mission
Deliverance day. 3. Wavell invites Nehru to form an interim government.
1940: 4. First Session of the Constituent Assembly
1. Lahore session of the Muslim league passes the Pakistan Resolution. 5. Nehru elected leader of the Congress Party.
2. Viceroy Linlithgow announces the August offer. 6. Constituent Assembly for India meets for the first time.
3. Congress launches Individual Satyagraha movement. 1947:
1941: 1. British Prime Minister Attlee declares that the British government would
1. Death of Rabindranath Tagore. leave India by June 1948.
2. Subhas Chandra Bose escapes from India to Germany. 2. Lord Mountbatten, last British viceroy and governor general of India is
1942: sworn in.
1. Churchill announces the Cripps Mission. 3. Mountbatten Plan for partition of India was announced.
2. The Cripps mission's proposals are rejected by Congress. 4. Indian Independence Bill introduced in the House of Commons and
3. Quit India resolution was passed by the Bombay session of the AICC, passed by the British parliament on July 18, 1947.
which led to the start of a historical Quit India Movement across India. 5. War breaks out between India and Pakistan Administered Kashmir forces
4. Jawaharlal Nehru's daughter Indira marries a Parsi lawyer and insurgent, in Kashmir.
Feroze Gandhi against her father's wishes. 6. Junagadh joins the Dominion of India.
5. Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces. 7. Air India goes international.
6. Newly married couple Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi are arrested for 8. Indians got Independence
their participation in Quit India movement. 9.Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Prime Minister of India and unfurls the
'7. Hurricane and flooding in Bombay: 40,000 dead. Indian tricolour on the ramparts of the Red Fort, symbolically marking the
8. Indian National Army was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists end of British colonial rule.
(Mohan Singh) in Southeast Asia during World War II. In the above timeline of Indian Freedom Movement from 1885 to 1947 will
1943: enhance the knowledge of the readers about the chronology of the events
that happen during India’s Freedom Struggle.
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List of the Sessions of Indian National Congress before Independence Chamber of Commerce.

Presided 25 March 1838 – 25 January 1918


Year of
No. Name of President Session at Picture Life span (Notes) He joined the Indian Civil Service in
Presidency
Location Bombay and retired as acting Chief
Secretary to the Government
of Bombay in 1887. He served as its
5 1889 William Wedderburn Bombay president in 1889 and 1910. He worked
along with influential Congress leaders in
29 December 1844 – 19 August 1906 Bombay and in 1890 he chaired
Womesh Chunder the British committee of the Indian
1 1885 Bombay A barrister who was the co-founder and
Bonnerjee National Congress. He contributed to the
first president of Indian National Indian Reform Movement through which
Congress presiding over its first session. he promoted national consciousness.[24]

4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917


He was also a member of the Indian 6 1890 Pherozeshah Mehta Calcutta 4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915
National Association founded by
Sir Surendranath
Banerjee from Calcutta a few years
2 1886 Dadabhai Naoroji Calcutta before the founding of the INC in
Bombay, with the same objectives and 7 1891 Anandacharlu August 1843 – 1908
practices.[18] The two groups later merged
into the INC, and Naoroji was elected
President of the Congress in 1886. 29 December 1844 – 1906
Naoroji published Poverty and un-British
Rule in India in 1901.[18] Womesh Chunder Becoming a president for a second
8 1892 Allahabad
Bonnerjee time[25] he denounced the position that
10 October 1844 – 1906 India had to prove for worthiness of
Tyabji was considered a moderate political freedom.[26]
Muslims during the freedom movement of
India.[19] He was instrumental in building
the national scope of the Congress by
working to gain support from both Hindus 4 September 1825 – 1917
3 1887 Badruddin Tyabji Madras and Muslims and during his time as 9 1893 Dadabhai Naoroji Lahore He became the president for a second
President, he focused on uniting the time. Naoroji published Poverty and un-
Muslim community.[20] In response to British Rule in India in 1901.[27]
criticisms that Muslims should boycott the
Congress, Tyabji declared that he had
denounced all communal and sectarian
prejudices.[21][22]
10 1894 Alfred Webb 1834–1908
1829–1892
A Scottish merchant who served as the
fourth President of the Congress and the
4 1888 George Yule Allahabad first non-Indian to hold that office.[23] He
was founder of George Yule & Co. of
London, and headed Andrew Yule & Co.,
of Calcutta. He served as Sheriff of
Calcutta and as President of the Indian

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Surendranath Surendranath
11 1895 Poona 10 November 1848 – 6 August 1925 18 1902 10 November 1825 – 1917
Banerjee Banerjee

5 April 1847 – 6 June 1902 19 1903 Lalmohan Ghosh 1848–1909


He was a member of the Congress
Executive Committee (Indian Congress
Committee) formed in 1899 as one of the
12 1896 Rahimtulla M. Sayani Calcutta
representatives from Bombay. As 20 1904 Henry Cotton 1845–1915
Congress president, his address to the
party was notable for its detailed look on
the British rule's economic and financial
aspects.[28]

Gopal Krishna
21 1905 Banaras 9 May 1866 – 1915
Gokhale
13 1897 C. Sankaran Nair 11 July 1857 – 24 April 1934

4 September 1825 – 1917


He was elected president of the
Congress for a third time. Naoroji was a
14 1898 Anandamohan Bose 23 September 1847 – 20 August 1906 staunch moderate within the Congress,
22 1906 Dadabhai Naoroji Calcutta during the phase when opinion in the
party was split between the moderates
and extremists. Naoroji was a mentor
to Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal Krishna
Gokhale and Mohandas Karamchand
Romesh Chunder Gandhi.
15 1899 13 August 1848 – 1909
Dutt

23 1907 Rashbihari Ghosh Surat 23 December 1845 – 1921

16 1900 N. G. Chandavarkar 2 December 1855 – 1923 24 1908 Rashbihari Ghosh Madras 23 December 1845 – 1921

Madan Mohan
25 1909 Lahore 25 December 1861 – 1946
Malaviya
Dinshaw Edulji
17 1901 2 August 1844 – 1936
Wacha

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1838–1918
He joined the Indian Civil Service in Madan Mohan
Bombay and retired as acting Chief 34 1918 25 December 1861 – 1946
Malaviya
Secretary to the Government
of Bombay in 1887. He served as its
26 1910 William Wedderburn president in 1889 and 1910. He worked
along with influential Congress leaders in
Bombay and in 1890 he chaired
the British committee of the Indian
National Congress.
Congress He contributed to the 35 1918 Syed Hasan Imam 31 August 1871 – 1933
Indian Reform Movement through which
he promoted national consciousness.[24]

1864–1916
27 1911 Bishan Narayan Dar Calcutta

Raghunath Narasinha 36 1919 Motilal Nehru Amritsar 6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931
28 1912 1857–1921
Mudholkar

Nawab Syed
29 1913 ?–1919
Muhammad Bahadur

Calcutta
37 1920 Lala Lajpat Rai (special 28 January 1865 – 17 November 1928
Bhupendra Nath session)
30 1914 1859–1924
Bose

C.
38 1920 Nagpur 1852 – 19 April 1944
Lord Satyendra Vijayaraghavachariar
31 1915 March 1863 – 1928
Prasanna Sinha

Chittaranjan
Das (President)
39 1921 Ahemdabad 1863 – 29 December 1927
Ambica Charan Hakim Ajmal
32 1916 Lucknow 1850–1922 Khan (Acting
Mazumdar
President)

40 1922 Chittaranjan Das Gaya 5 November 1870 – 16 June 1925


33 1917 Annie Besant Calcutta 1 October 1847 – 1933

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Mohammad Ali
41 1923 10 December 1878 – 4 January 1931 48 1929 & 30 Jawaharlal Nehru Lahore 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964
Jouhar

42 1923 Abul Kalam Azad Delhi 1888 – 22 February 1958 49 1931 Vallabhbhai Patel Karachi 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950

Madan Mohan
43 1924 Mahatma Gandhi Belgaum 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948 50 1932 25 December 1861 – 1946
Malaviya

1886–1973
She was elected President by the party
44 1925 Sarojini Naidu Kanpur 13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949 51 1933 Nellie Sengupta for her contribution to the party and the
country. In 1933 and 1936, she was
elected as an alderman in the Calcutta
Corporation.[29]

3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963


45 1926 S. Srinivasa Iyengar 11 September 1874 – 19 May 1941

52 1934 & 35 Rajendra Prasad Bombay

Mukhtar Ahmed
46 1927 Madras 25 December 1880 – 10 May 1936 53 1936
Ansari

Lucknow
Jawaharlal Nehru 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964
and Faizpur
54 1937

47 1928 Motilal Nehru Calcutta 6 May 1861 – 6 February 1931 23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945
He had a view that the INC "should be
Subhas Chandra
55 1938 Haripura organised on the boradest anti-imperialist
Bose
front with the two fold objective of winning
political freedom and the establishment of
a socialist regime."[30]

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Subhas Chandra 23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945
Bose (resigned) S.C.Bose was re-elected but had to
Rajendra resign due to protest by Gandhiji (as
56 1939 Tripuri
Prasad replaced Gandhiji supported to Dr. Pattabhi
Bose after Sitaramayya). Rajendra Prasad was
the session. appointed in his place.

57 1940–45 Abul Kalam Azad Ramgarh 1888 – 22 February 1958

14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964


One month after his election as the
president, he was asked to head the
57 1946 Jawaharlal Nehru Interim Government. After which the post
of the party president and the head of the
Interim government was split. Nehru
resigned as the president of INC and
headed the Government

1888– 19March 1982

He had served as the General Secretary of


the INC for almost a decade. He had
experience working in the field of education
58 1947 J. B. Kripalani Meerut and was made the president to rebuild the
INC. Disputes between the party and the
Government over procedural matters
affected his relationship with the
colleagues in the Government.

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