It was during the war many members of the Congress as well as the League wanted the unity of all Indians irrespective of religion. The league and the Congress both met at Bombay to draft schemes for post war reforms. In 1916 at Lucknow both political organisations accepted an agreement known as the Lucknow Pact embodying their minimum joint demands. [...]
Bal Gangadhar Tilak became the leader of extremists group in the Congress. He was born in 1856 in Maharashtra also in a Brahmin family. He was a meritorious student. For a time being he worked as a Professor in Ferguson College, Poona. But his patriotic zeal led him to politics and he joined the Indian National Congress. From the very [...]
Bipan Chandra characterizes the freedom struck or the national movement or the national liberation movement as, "...undoubtedly one of the biggest mass movements modern society has ever seen. It was a movement which galvanized millions of people of all classes and ideologies into political action and brought to its knees a mighty colonial empire". Indian national movement is as relevant [...]