Modern History Of India (Part-II) (Railway)

• A large number of women took active part in the movement. It was these women who gave Patel the moniker 'Sardar'.

Mahatma Gandhi also lend support to the movement through his writings in Young India' magazine.

• On 20th May, 1498, two years after he set his sail from Lisbon, Portugal, Vasco da Gama arrived on the Western sea coast of India at Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala.

•This was the first time when a European had arrived in India via the sea.

In early 1919, the All India Khilafat Committee was formed to force the British Government to change its attitude to Turkey.

He was the second Indian to qualify the Indian Civil Service examinations.

He believed in moderate means of political agitation. meetings, petitions, and legislative action.

In March 1942, the Prime Minister dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the War Cabinet, to India to discuss the British Government's Draft Declaration.

The draft granted India Dominion status after the war but otherwise conceded few changes to the British Government Act of 1935.

• The draft was unacceptable to the Congress Working Committee who rejected it.

• The aim was not to kill but to make themselves heard and use the trials to make people familiar with their movement and ideology.

• The paper was notable for its criticism of the British Raj in India and its exhortation to Indian Muslims to join the growing Indian independence movement.

Al-Hilal ran from 1912 to 1914, when it was shut down under the Press Act.

• He called the father of the Indian Constitution since he was the chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee.

He was the sole representative in the Constituent Assembly of the Scheduled Castes Federation.

• Clement Attlee was a member of the Commission. He would later become British Prime Minister during Indian independence and partition in 1947.

He initiated a ban on British clothes in Bengal during the Non Cooperation Movement of 1920 to 1922.

• He was the mentor of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.