Rise of Nationalism in India Formula Sheet

Laissez faire: non-interference of government; free trade.
Indentured labour: five-year penal contract labour.
Kanganis: recruiting agents.
Home Charges: payments to Britain, a loss of 30 million pounds a year.

Rise of Nationalism in India - Quick Revision Sheet

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Year	Event
1815	Governor of Ceylon asks Madras for coolies
1821	Sambad Kaumudi (Bengali)
1823	General Committee of Public Instruction
1828	Brahmo Samaj
1835	English Education Act; Macaulay's Minute
1843	Abolition of slavery in British India
1852	Madras Native Association (26 February)
1857	Universities of Bombay, Madras, Calcutta
1859-60	Indigo revolt, Bengal
1865 / 1866	India Society / East India Association
1866	Orissa famine
1870	Section 124A IPC
1876-78	Madras famine (Lytton)
1878	Vernacular Press Act
1883	Ilbert Bill agitation
1884	Madras Mahajana Sabha (May)
1885	INC founded, Bombay, 28 December
1897	Tilak's Swaraj call; arrest on 27 July
1901	Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
1915	Gandhi returns from South Africa

Person	Remembered for
Dadabhai Naoroji	Drain theory, Voice of India, Rast Goftar
Bal Gangadhar Tilak	Kesari, Mahratta, Swaraj call
Surendranath Banerjea	Bengalee
T.B. Macaulay	Minute on Indian Education
William Digby	Editor, Madras Times
Gajula Lakshminarasu	Inspired the MNA
H.D. Seymour	Indian Reform Society, Madras visit 1853
A.O. Hume	Founder of the INC
W.C. Bonnerjee	First INC president

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