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Introduction

“The palest ink is clearer than the fondest memory.” Famous Saying I’m reading India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra and others. History, it’s said, repeats itself, and therefore oftentimes the key to understanding the future hangs in the past. Reading without note-taking can be better summed up as half-hearted study, a kind of mental laziness. If you’re not able to write it down, it hints that you haven’t grasped it in the first place. So I have committed myself to revise in writing what I have read. And instead of keeping these notes to myself, I’m putting them up here so that I can reference them later on. Well, reading this book is broadening my understanding of politics, socioeconomics and how things work overall. I have understood better how governments manipulate public to attain its dastard motives. I also read how vital role the press plays in shaping the dynamics of a nation, and how important is it to have it free. In the freedom movement
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Home Rule Movement: Background, accomplishments, fall

Home Rule Movement or Home Rule League was started by two different people: An Irish lady Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak in September and April 1916 respectively. The core motive of this movement was to get self-rule (or Swaraj) under the British as in many other British-ruled colonies. It advocated not for overthrowing the British government, but to be accrued with more freedom and power. After the Indian National Congress broke in the Surat session of 1907, it was rendered virtually inactive. Extremists were jailed and the moderates received no significant profits that the Britishers talked about. It was the carrot and stick or divide and rule strategy of the Britishers that formed this split in the Congress, but till the time the leaders smelled this conspiracy, the freedom-seeking spirit had almost ebbed out from the organisation. When Tilak, an extremist, got out of the jail, he tried to get himself in the Congress, but the dominance of the moderates prevented hi
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