Towards Freedom

• Learning Objectives:
Cognitive Domain:

• To be able to know the impact of English education on the Indians.

• To know about the social reformers and their contribution.
• To understand the role of Indian National Congress in strengthening the freedom movement.
• To analyze the policy of ’Divide & rule’ and its impact.

Affective Domain:
• Feeling of Nationalism will be raised.
• To appreciate struggle of freedom and contribution of Many leaders .

Psychomotor Domain:
• Students will make the poster of their favourite social reformer with few lines
Social Reformers :
one that works for or urges reform
 Arya Samaj Ram Krishna Mission
Brahmo Samaj (Calcutta)

Dayanand Saraswati

Swami Vivekananda
Raja Rammohan Roy
Indian National Congress
On 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was
founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay,
with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as
the General Secretary, and W.C. Banerjee of Calcutta was
elected President.

A.O. Hume-Allan Octavian Hume

In the initial years, the aims of the Indian National Congress were:
•To promote and consolidate the feeling of National unity.
•To formulate popular demands and present them before the government.
•To bring together leaders from different parts of the country.
•To train and organise public opinion in the country.
The partition separated the largely Muslim eastern
areas from the largely Hindu western areas on 16
October 1905 after being announced on 19 July 1905 by
Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India.

Lord Curzon
The Swadeshi movement was in protest of the Government's
decision to partition Bengal had been made public in July
1905. It called for boycott of all British goods and buy Indian
products only. This inculcated a feeling of self-reliance by
reducing the dependence on foreign goods.
Bengal Partition and Swadeshi and Boycott Movements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwXX7Q6EeEk&t=70s
 The All India Muslim League (AIML) was formed on
December 30, 1906 mainly to protect and advance the
political rights and interests of the Muslims of India

NAWAB SALIMULLA AGA KHAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShVcX8E2f-0&t=62s