Women And The National Struggle
One Of The Important Facts Of India's Freedom Movement Was The
Growing Participation Of Women. Women Played Crucial Role In The
Economic Boycott Compaigns And Often Participated In The Non
Cooperation Movement With As Much Or Even Greater Then Their
Husbands For Male Relatives. Women Attendant In Large Numbers
Orphan With Little Children In Tow.
In The Group Led By Surya Sen They Acted As Messengers And
Custodians Of Arms And Fought Or Gans In Hand When They Need.
In December 1931 Two School Girls Of Comilla, Shanti Ghosh And
Suniti Chaudhary Shoot The District Magistrate
In February 1932 Bina Das Fired Point Blank At The Governor While
Receiving Her Degree At The Convocation.
When The Entire Congress Leadership Was Put In Jail In
1942 Women's Leaders Like Aruna Asaf Ali And Sucheta
Kriplani Emerged With Achyut Patwardhan And Ram
Manohar Lohiya And Others To Lead The Underground Resistance.
Usha Mehta Ran The Congress Radio.
The Journey Of Women's Liberation Thought Can Be Said To
Have Started With Raja Ram Mohan Roy Who In Bengal
Demanded That Womens Not Regarded As Weak.
After That Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Devendra Nath
Tagore, Supported The Views Of Ram Mohan.
In Uttar Pradesh Huzur Maharaj Rai Salig Ram Worked For The
Removal Of Illiteracy Among The Women.
In The South In Madras The Social Reformer Virsalingam Work For
Advancement Of Women Through The Education And Marriage Reforms.
Swami Dayanand Saraswati Also Advocated Female Education Widow Remarriage.
The Movements Of Depressed Castes
Another Major Population Subgroup That Saw Major
Movement Were The Depressed Classes Also Known
As The Backward Castes Or Dalits.
Jyotirao Phule, Periyar And Ambedkar Emerged As
Amongst The Most Prominent Of The Dalit Leaders.
Dalit And Backward Caste Ideologies Launched A Full Fledged
Attack Against The Caste System And The Brahmanism
Maintaining And Pushing Forward The Movements First
Launched By Mahatma Phule Fine Tuned By Periyar In South
And Finally Polished By Ambedkar.
Gandhi Realised That For The Cause Of Forging Our National Identity
And National Street The Leadership Will Have To Eliminate Or Dilute
Social Divisions. And One Of The Worst Division Unique To India Was
The Caste Divide And Untouchability As Its Ugliest Manifestation.
Gandhi Also Choose The Reformist Approach To Unite India
Particularly Hindus For The Struggle Against The British.
The contribution of peasant movements
The Indian peasantry it may be argued rose for the first
time in protest during the 1857 revolt, tired and
exhausted with the revenue taxes imposed by
the British which was breaking their back.
The Farmer In India Rose Against Two Kinds Of Exploitation One
From The Jamidar And Jagirdars And The British.
The Kisan Sabha Movement Started In Bihar Under The
Leadership Of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Who Had Formed In
1929 The Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BKPS) In Order To Mobilise
Presents Against The Exploitation Of Jamidar On Filmsy.
Gandhi Had Led To Very Successful Revolts One Against The Taxation And
Allied Landlords In Champaran Bihar And Another In Kheda Gujarat.
In 1920 The Indian National Congress Under Gandhi Is Leadership Launched
The Non Cooperation Movement And Their Was Peasant Participation.
The Bardoli Satyagraha Of 1925 In The State Of Gujarat Was Almost Entirely
A Peasant Uprising. The Peasants Of Bardoli In Gujarat Suffered From Floods
And Famine Which Hurts The Crops Produce.
The Movements Of Tribals
Another Populations Of Group That Revoltedand Carried On Moments
During The British Era Contributing To The National Struggle Were Tribals.
British Rule And Its Accompanying Commercialization Strengthood Already
Present Tendencies Towards Preparation Of Tribals Area By Outsider From
The Plains Money Lenders Traders Land Grabbers And Contractors Hated By The Tribals.
There Were Various Revolts Under The Different
Inspiration From Time To Time
In 1868 The Naikda Forest Tribe Attacked Police
Station In a Bid To Established Dharm-raj.
In 1882 Tha Kacha Nagas Of Cachar Attack The Whites.
Workers and labour movement
The Low Wages And An Imaginable Living Condition Of
The Workers Enabled The Capitalists Whether British
Or Foreign To Pile Up Huge Profits. Britishers And The
Capitalist Exploits All The Workers And Labours. It Was
A Inevitable That People Living In Such Conditions
Would Rise And Revolt.
Socialism And Trade Union Have Brought The Power Of
Combination And The First Vision Of A Goal Which Can end
Their Misery. After That Many Moments And Meeting Held
In The Favour Of Workers And Labours And They
Demand For Limitation Of Hours Of Work, A Weekly Rest
Day, In On Time Recess And Compensation For Injuries.
