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Revolutionary Organisations
Revolutionary societies and parties of the freedom struggle with founders, region and notable actions, for CAPF Paper I revision
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Alongside the constitutional and mass movements, revolutionary groups pursued armed action. Cover the right columns and recall founders and key actions. See personalities of the freedom struggle.
| Organisation (Year) |
Founder / leaders |
Notable activity |
| Abhinav Bharat (1904) |
V D Savarkar and Ganesh Savarkar |
Secret society in Maharashtra |
| Anushilan Samiti (1902) |
Pramatha Mitra; Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Jatindranath Banerjee |
Revolutionary training in Bengal |
| Jugantar (Yugantar) (1906) |
Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Bhupendranath Datta |
Alipore Bomb Case; the journal Yugantar |
| Mitra Mela / later groups |
(Maharashtra) |
Early revolutionary cells |
| Organisation (Year) |
Founder / leaders |
Notable activity |
| India House, London (1905) |
Shyamji Krishna Varma; Savarkar associated |
Centre for Indian students abroad |
| Ghadar Party (1913) |
Lala Hardayal, Sohan Singh Bhakna |
Founded in San Francisco; the Ghadar paper; the planned 1915 mutiny |
| Berlin Committee / Indian Independence Committee (1915) |
Virendranath Chattopadhyay and others |
Sought German help during the First World War |
| Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) (1942 onwards) |
First formed by Mohan Singh (1942); Rash Behari Bose handed it to Subhas Chandra Bose, who reorganised it in 1943 |
"Delhi Chalo"; the Red Fort trials (1945 to 1946) |
| Organisation (Year) |
Founder / leaders |
Notable activity |
| Hindustan Republican Association (1924) |
Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Ram Prasad Bismil and others |
The Kakori Conspiracy / train robbery (1925) |
| Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (1928) |
Reorganised by Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and others |
Assembly bomb (1929); Lahore Conspiracy Case; Saunders shot |
| Naujawan Bharat Sabha (1926) |
Bhagat Singh |
Youth organisation in Punjab |
| Person / case |
Note |
| Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki (1908) |
Muzaffarpur bomb |
| Kakori Conspiracy (1925) |
Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan and others executed |
| Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev (1931) |
Hanged in the Lahore Conspiracy Case |
| Chandrashekhar Azad (1931) |
Died fighting in Alfred Park, Allahabad |
| Surya Sen (1934) |
Chittagong Armoury Raid (1930); hanged |