Dayanand
-Earliest Neo-nationalist
-Go back to Vedas
-Wrote Satyartha Prakash
Ram Krishna Paramhans
Original name : Gadoidhar Chattopadhyay
Swami Vivekananda(63-02)
-Original name: Narendranath Dutta
-Attended Parliament of religions held at Chicago in 1893 and Published Prabhudha Bharata in English and
Udbodhana in Bengali.
-Founded Ramakrishna Mission
THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
First meeting organized by A.O Hume at Gokaldar Tejpal Sanskrit College on 28th Dec 1885 (Bombay). Its
first president was W C Bannerjee.
-Gandhiji became the president in 1924 (Belgaum)
-S C Bose became the president in 1938 (Haripura) and 1939 (Tripuri)
-President during Quit India Movement 1940- Maulan Abul Kalam Azad (Ramgarh)
-J L Nehru became president for the first time in 1929 (Lahore)
SWADESHI MOVEMENT
It began as an anti-partition agitationo in Bengal and Boycott was first suggested by KrishnaKumar
Mitra inSanjivni in 1905
Leaders Journals
Bipin Pal New India
Barinder Ghosh Yugantar
K K Mitra Sanjivani
Moderates and Extremists in Congress
Moderates- Pray, Petition.
Extremists- Bipin Chandra Pal, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai.
-Tilak said Swaraj is my birth right
-He was the editor of Maratta ( English) and Kesri (Marathi)
Minto Morley Reforms(1909)
-Separate electorate for muslims.
-Elections introduced for the first time.
Home rule Movement
Tilak and Anni-Besant
Anni- Besants News Papers: New India, Commonweal,