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Growth of Nationalism and Struggle for Independence (1885–1919) - Short Trick

Associations, sessions, leaders and events — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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National Awakening and Lytton

The books that stirred people, Lord Lytton’s reactionary measures and the Ilbert Bill.

Trick 1

Lord Lytton’s reactionary measures

⇄ Any order

Arjun cooked vada during the afternoon again.

  1. Arms Act1878 — Europeans exempt
  2. Cotton import duty removedon British cotton textiles — a blow to Indian industry
  3. Vernacular Press Act1878 — the “Gagging Act” · repealed by Ripon in 1882
  4. Durbar at Delhi1877 — Victoria proclaimed Empress during a famine
  5. Afghan War (Second)paid for out of Indian revenue
  6. Age limit for the ICS cutfrom 21 to 19

To escape the Press Act, Amrita Bazar Patrika turned into an English paper overnight · The Hindu (Madras, 1878) was also a response to it.

Pairs

Books and a bill — whose

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Anand went to the bank.

Anandamath=Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Neel met Dina.

Nil Darpan=Dinabandhu Mitra — the cruelty of the indigo planters

Swara met Daya.

The word “Swaraj” (first political use)=Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Ilaichi tied with a ribbon

Ilbert Bill (1883)=Under Lord Ripon · law member Courtenay Ilbert — Indian judges could try Europeans

Bharatendu Harishchandra urged people to use swadeshi goods · the Ilbert Bill lesson — the Europeans won because they were organised.

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Before the Congress

Founders of the pre-Congress associations and the first Indians in the civil service.

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Congress Sessions

The founding session and each landmark session’s venue ↔ president.

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Moderates and Extremists

The leaders of both wings, the papers and titles of the four big extremists, and the area of Tilak’s Home Rule League.

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Bengal Partition and Swadeshi

The Carlyle Circular, the Swadeshi samitis and the Hardinge bomb.

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League, Home Rule and Lucknow

From the Simla Deputation to the August Declaration in order, and the name tied to each event.

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Revolutionary Nationalism

Revolutionary groups abroad and their founders, and the names behind the big events.

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