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• Founded the Theosophical Society in India and started the Home Rule
League.
• Established Central Hindu School and College at Banaras (later Bill]).
• President of the Calcutta Session of INC, AD 1917.
• She did not attend the AD 1920 Session at Nagpur due to growing
difference with Gandhiji as she felt that Government of India Act, 1919 were
a means to free India.
• Newspapers — New India and Commonweal.
• She prepared the Lotus Song, a translation of 'Gita' into English.
Ajit Singh
• He was a revolutionary nationalist arrested in 1907 and deported to
Mandalay.
• He founded the Bharat Mata Society and launched a journal, Peshwa.
• An active member of Ghadar Party.
AK Fazlul Haq
• Founder member of All India Muslim League and its member from 1916 to
1921.
• Represented the league in the three Round Table Conferences.
• Founded the Krishak Praja Party in 1937 and worked as Chief Minister of
Bengal from 1938-43.
Amir Chand 1869-1915
• He was a revolutionary activist and associate of Lala Hardayal and Ras
Behari Bose.
• He was arrested in connection with Lahore Bomb and Delhi Conspiracy
cases.
• He was accused of throwing a bomb on Lord Hardinge and was sentenced
to death.
CR Das 1870-1925
• A lawyer by profession, he defended Aurobindo in the Alipur Bomb
Conspiracy case.
• He was the member of the Congress Enquiry Committee set up to look into
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
• He founded the All India Swaraj Party in 1923.
• He was elected as the first Mayor of the Calcutta Co-operation in 1924.
• He prepared the Das Formula for Hindu-Muslim Co-operation.
• He was nicknamed as Deshbandhu Chittaranjan.
• His works include Malancha in 1895 (poems), Mala in
1904, Antaryami in 1915, Kishore-Kishoree and Sagar-Sangit in 1913.
• Newspapers/Journal-Narayana (Bengali monthly) and Forward.
Dadabhai Naoroji 1825-1917
• First to demand ‘Swaraj” in the Calcutta Session of INC, 1906.
• Title — “Indian Gladstone”, “Grand Old Man of lndia’.
• First Indian to be selected to the “House of Commons” on Liberal Party
ticket.
• He highlighted the draining of wealth from India by the British and its
effect in his book “Poverty and un-British Rule in India “(1901).
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 1891-1956
• Leader of the depressed class and an eminent jurist.
• He founded the Depressed Classes Institute (1924) and Samaj Samata
Sangh (1927).
• He set up a network colleges in the name of Peoples Education Society.
• Participated in all the Three Round Table Conferences and signed the
Poona Pact with Gandhiji in 1932.
• He was in the Governor General's Executive Council from 1942 to 1946
and organized the Indian Labour Party and Scheduled Caste Federation.
• Chairman of the Drafting Committee of Indian Constitution.
• As the first Law Minister of the Independent India, he introduced the Hindu
Code Bill.
• He started ‘The Republican Party’ in 1956.
• Towards the end of his life, he embraced Buddhism.