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Home Rule and Ghadr 1916
- Home Rule Leagues
- Key People
- Annie Besant
- Led All India Home Rule League
- About 30,000 members
- Covered most of India
- Tilak
- Focused on just 2 regions
- About 32,000 members
- Aim: self-government within the empire
- Illegal:went against 1915 defence of India act
- What?
- Toured country
- Speeches
- Pamphlets
- Success
- British saw it as a threat
- Gained support from Congress moderates
- First mass movement
- Failure
- Didn't achieve aims
- Besant imprisoned
- Tilak charged with sedition
- Didn't achieve targets
- Campaigners arrested
- Result: Montagu decleration 1917
- Ghadr Movement
- Early movements of Pathans
- Winter 1914-15
- Hindus in the army afraid they would be led by Muslims
- 1916
- Indian troops in Singapore
- Heard about the death toll at the Somme
- Heard a rumour they would be sent to France
- Rampaged killed European civillians and women
- 37 ringleaders executed
- Order quickly established
- Mutiny that never happened
- Early 1914 300 Sikhs left to go to Canada
- They were denied entry
- After a few months they returned to Calcutta
- British were paranoid as knew there anti-British Indians in Canada
- Troops escorted the Sikhs to holding camps
- Some tried to ecape, 22 shot
- The rest transported around India
- An official inquiry blamed Sikhs
- Inflamed anti-British feeling in Punjab
- Secret Police watched politics in Punjab
- 1915-Information led to break up of planned uprising
- 5,000 arrested, 200 jailed,46 hanged
- British lost support of previosly loyal Punjab