Home Rule and Ghadr 1916

Home Rule Leagues
1. Key People
  1. Annie Besant
    1. Led All India Home Rule League
    2. About 30,000 members
    3. Covered most of India
  2. Tilak
    1. Focused on just 2 regions
    2. About 32,000 members
2. Aim: self-government within the empire
3. Illegal:went against 1915 defence of India act
4. What?
  1. Toured country
  2. Speeches
  3. Pamphlets
5. Success
  1. British saw it as a threat
  2. Gained support from Congress moderates
  3. First mass movement
6. Failure
  1. Didn't achieve aims
  2. Besant imprisoned
  3. Tilak charged with sedition
  4. Didn't achieve targets
  5. Campaigners arrested
7. Result: Montagu decleration 1917
Ghadr Movement
1. Early movements of Pathans
  1. Winter 1914-15
    1. Hindus in the army afraid they would be led by Muslims
  2. 1916
    1. Indian troops in Singapore
    2. Heard about the death toll at the Somme
    3. Heard a rumour they would be sent to France
    4. Rampaged killed European civillians and women
    5. 37 ringleaders executed
    6. Order quickly established
2. Mutiny that never happened
  1. Early 1914 300 Sikhs left to go to Canada
  2. They were denied entry
  3. After a few months they returned to Calcutta
  4. British were paranoid as knew there anti-British Indians in Canada
  5. Troops escorted the Sikhs to holding camps
  6. Some tried to ecape, 22 shot
  7. The rest transported around India
  8. An official inquiry blamed Sikhs
  9. Inflamed anti-British feeling in Punjab
  10. Secret Police watched politics in Punjab
  11. 1915-Information led to break up of planned uprising
  12. 5,000 arrested, 200 jailed,46 hanged
  13. British lost support of previosly loyal Punjab

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