People & Movements
Table of Contents
1 Personalities Associated with Specific Movements
1.1 Swadesh Movement
| Person | Role |
|---|---|
| Tilak | Ganpati, Shivaji festivals |
| aimed for attainment of swaraj | |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | assisted by Ajit Singh |
| wrote in Kayastha Samachar | |
| endorsed technical education and industrial self-sufficiency | |
| Chidambaram Pillai | Madras |
| strike at Tuticorin Coral Mill | |
| founded Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in Tuticorin | |
| Bipin Chandra Pal | Urban areas |
| editor of New India | |
| Laikat Hossain | East India Railway strike 1906 |
| fiery Urdu articles | |
| Rabindranath Tagore | songs to inspire freedom struggle |
| revived Bengali folk music | |
| set up swadeshi stores | |
| Aurobindo Ghosh | orincipal of Bengal National College, founded 1906 |
| editor of Bande Matram, encouraged strikes | |
| assisted by Jatindernath Bannerji and Barindrakumar Ghosh (Anushilan Smiti) | |
| Surendranath Bannerjee | The Bengalee |
| assisted by Krishna Kumar Mitra () and Narendra Kumar | |
| Promotha Mitther, | founded the Anushilan Samiti in Calcutta |
| Barindrakumar Ghosh, | |
| Jatindranath Bannerjee | |
| Gokhale | president of 1905 Benares session |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | president of 1906 Calcutta session |
| declared swaraj to be the goal of the INC | |
| Acharaya P. C. Ray | Set up Bengal Chemicals Factory |
| Ashwini Coomar Bannerjee | led jute mill workers to form Indian Millhands' Union at Buj Buj |
2 Important Newspapers
| Name of Newspaper | Language | Founders/Contributors | Special significance |
|---|---|---|---|