The ‘Red Shirts’ was the popular name for the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) movement, a non-violent social and political organization in the North-West Frontier Province. Founded by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Badshah Khan), the members wore red-colored uniforms. They ...
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The second split in the Indian National Congress occurred at a special session held in Mumbai in August 1918. This split happened over the differences regarding the Montagu-Chelmsford reform proposals. Moderate leaders like Surendranath Banerjee supported the reforms, while the ...
RC Dutt (Romesh Chunder Dutt) was a civil servant and historian known for his work on Indian economic history, but he was not associated with the Azad Hind Fauj. The other options—General Mohan Singh (founder), Gurdial Singh Dhillon and Shah ...
During the 1917 Champaran Satyagraha, Mahatma Gandhi was accompanied and assisted by several local leaders, most notably Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Anugrah Narayan Singh. These associates helped Gandhi gather thousands of testimonies from indigo farmers against the exploitative Tinkathia system. ...
Mahatma Gandhi first used the hunger strike as a political tool during the Ahmedabad Mill Workers’ Strike in 1918. The workers were demanding a 35% wage hike (Plague Bonus), which the mill owners refused. To strengthen the workers’ resolve and ...