Chapter 10 - Armed Revolutionary Movement
1. Rewrite the statements by choosing the appropriate options.
(Pandit Shyamji Krishna Varma, Mitramela, Ramsingh Kuka)
(1) Swatantryaveer Savarkar started a secret organisation of revolutionaries named ………….. .
Ans: Mitramela
(2) In Punjab, ………….. organised an uprising against the Government.
Ans: Ramsinh Kuka
(3) ………….. founded the India House.
Ans: Pandit Shyamji Krishna Varma
2. Complete the following table.
| Revolutionary | Organisation |
|---|---|
………………. | Abhinav Bharat |
Barindrakumar Ghosh | ………………. |
Chandrashekhar Azad | ………………. |
Ans:
| Revolutionary | Organisation |
|---|---|
Swatantryaveer Savarkar | Abhinav Bharat |
Barindrakumar Ghosh | Anushilan Samiti |
Chandrashekhar Azad | Hindustan Socialist Republican Army |
3. Explain the following statements with reasons.
(i) Chafekar brothers killed Rand.
Ans:
(ii) The plague epidemic broke out in 1897 in Pune.
(iii) Commissioner Rand was appointed to manage the plague epidemic.
(iv) In the course of curtailing the epidemic, he resorted to tyranny and force.
(v) As a revenge, the Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot him dead on June 22, 1897.
(2) Khudiram Bose was hanged to death.
Ans:
(i) Anushilan Samiti worked with the objective of overthrowing British rule with armed rebellion.
(ii) Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose were the members of Anushilan Samiti.
(iii) They planned to kill a judge named Kingsford.
(iv) They threw a bomb at a vehicle, assuming it was that of Kingsford, but the vehicle was not the one carrying him.
(v) However, two English women were killed in this attack.
(vi) Hence, Khudiram Bose was caught by the police and hanged.
(3) Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly.
Ans:
(i) The government had introduced two bills in the Central Legislature.
(ii) The Bills curtailed the civil rights of the people.
(iii) To protest against these bills, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly.
4. Answer the following questions in brief.
(1) Write a detail description of the attack on Chittagong Armoury.
Ans:
(i) Surya Sen drew up a plan to attack the armoury at Chittagong.
(ii) He and his associates raided two government armouries on April 18, 1930.
(iii) They seized arms and ammunition from the two armouries.
(iv) He took revolutionaries like Anant Singh, Ganesh Ghosh, Kalpana Datta, and Pritilata Waddedar with him.
(v) They cut off the telephone and telegraph connections and succeeded in paralysing communication.
(2) Explain the contribution of Swatantryaveer Savarkar in the armed revolutionary movement.
Ans:
(i) Swatantryaveer Savarkar founded ‘Mitramela’ in 1900 at Nashik and renamed it ‘Abhinav Bharat’ in 1904.
(ii) He went to England for higher studies and sent revolutionary literature and guns to the members of Abhinav Bharat in India.
(iii) The government linked the murder of Jackson to Swatantryaveer Savarkar and arrested him.
(iv) He was put on trial. The court ordered rigorous punishment for 50 years in Andaman jail.
(v) His contribution to the armed revolution in India was great.