Solutions-Class 8-History-Chapter-10-Armed Revolutionary Movement-Maharashtra Board

Swatantryaveer Savarkar started a secret organisation of revolutionaries named Mitramela

In Punjab, Ramsingh Kuka organised an uprising against the Government.

Pandit Shyamji Krishna Varma founded the India House.

• A plague epidemic broke out in Pune in 1897.
• The Plague pandemic was managed by Commissioner Rand.
• In order to stop the outbreak, he used dictatorship and force.
• In revenge, the Chafekar brothers Damodar and Balkrishna shot him dead on June 22, 1897.

• Anushilan Samiti aimed to remove British authority via an armed rebellion.
• Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose were members of Anushilan Samiti.
• They intended to assassinate a judge called Kingsford.
• They threw a bomb at a vehicle, thinking it was transporting Kingsiord, but it was not.
• However, two English women died in this incident.
• Khudiram Bose was caught by the police and was hanged.

• The Government had introduced two bills in the Central Legislature.
• The Bills curtailed civil rights of the people.
• To protest against these bills, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly.

• Surya Sen drew a plan to attack the armoury at Chittagong.
• He and his associates raided two government armouries on the 18^th April, 1930.
• They seized arms and ammunition from the two armouries.
• He took revolutionaries like Anant Singh, Ganesh Ghosh, Kalpana Datta and Pritilata Waddedar with him.
• They cut off the telephone and telegraph connections and succeeded in paralysing the communication.

• Swatantryaveer Savarkar established 'Mitramela' in Nashik in 1900 and renamed it 'Abhinav Bharat' in 1904.
• He travelled to England for further study and sent revolutionary literature and weaponry to Abhinav Bharat activists in India.
• The government linked murder of Jackson to Swatantryaveer Savarkar and arrested him.
• He was charged with a crime. The judge imposed a harsh penalty of 50 years in Andaman prison.
• His role to India's armed revolution was significant.