Read this article to learn about the history of peasant and tribal movements in India: Indigo Revolt (1859-60): The Indigo revolt of Bengal was directed against British planters who forced peasants to take advances and sign fraudulent contracts which forced the peasants to grow Indigo under terms which were the least profitable to them. The revolt began in Govindpur village [...]
Read this article to learn about the thoughts and the techniques of Gandhian mass movements for freedom of India! Gandhi and His Thought: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2, Oct. 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. After getting his legal education in Britain he landed at Durban in 1893 on a one-year contract to sort out the legal problems of [...]
Read this article to learn about the trends followed in the swadeshi movement: The Swadesh Movement had its genesis in the anti-partition movement which was stated to oppose the British decision to partition Bengal. The Government’s decision to partition Bengal had been made public in December 1903. The official reason given for the decision was that Bengal with a population [...]
