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Nationalism in India: Key Events Timeline

The document outlines key events in India's nationalist movement from 1915 to 1942, highlighting significant actions by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, including the Champaran and Kheda Satyagrahas, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the Salt Satyagraha. It also details the evolution of print culture from 594 AD to the 1930s, noting the introduction of printing technologies in China and Japan, the spread of the printing press in Europe, and the publication of significant Indian texts. The timeline illustrates the interplay between political movements and the dissemination of ideas through print media.

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Nationalism in India: Key Events Timeline

The document outlines key events in India's nationalist movement from 1915 to 1942, highlighting significant actions by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, including the Champaran and Kheda Satyagrahas, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the Salt Satyagraha. It also details the evolution of print culture from 594 AD to the 1930s, noting the introduction of printing technologies in China and Japan, the spread of the printing press in Europe, and the publication of significant Indian texts. The timeline illustrates the interplay between political movements and the dissemination of ideas through print media.

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Chapter 2 : Nationalism in India

1915 : Gandhiji returns to India

1917 : Gandhiji went to Champaran Bihar

1917 : Kheda Satyagraha in Gujarat

1918 : Ahmedabad mill Strike

1918 -1919 and 1920-21 : There is a severe food scarcity as a result of many
Indian regions’ crops failing.

1919 : Rowlatt Act


13th April 1919 : JallianwalaBagh massacre

1919 : Khilafat committee was formed in Bombay

1920 : In summer of 1920 Gandhiji and Shawkat Ali to and extensively


throughout the India

1920(Nagpur Session): Non cooperation programme was adopted by the


National Congress

1909 : Gandhiji wrote Hind Swaraj

1920(June) : Jawaharlal Nehru began going around the villages in awadh

1920 : Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress

6th January 1921 : The police in the united provinces fired at the peasants
near Rae Bareli

January 1921 : The non cooperation Khilafat movement began

1921 census : According to the census, famines and other disasters caused
the deaths of 12 to 13 million people.

1921 : Houses of talukdar and merchants were attacked

1921 : Gandhiji had designed the Swaraj flag

1922 : Chauri-Chaura violence

February 1922 : Gandhi decided to withdraw the non cooperation movement

1924 : Ram Raju was captured and executed

1926-1930 : Agricultural prices began to fall from 1926 and collapsed after
1930

1927 : The establishment of theFederation of the Indian Chamber of


Commerce and Industries (FICCI)

1928 : Simon Commission arrived in India

1928: Death of Lala Lajpath Rai

1928 : All party conference

October 1929 : Lord Irwin offered Dominion status

December 1929 : PurnaSwaraj was demanded or Purnaswaraj was formalized

26 January 1930 : Independence day was celebrated for the first time
31 january 1930 : Gandhiji sent a letter to Viceroy Lord Irwin stating 11
demands

6th April 1930 : Salt Satyagraha was started

April 1930 : Angry crowds demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar

1930 : Muhammad Iqbal stepped down as Muslim League president.

Nov. 1930 – Jan 1931-First Round Table Conference

Sept. – Dec. 1931 – Second Round Table Conference

5th March 1931 : Gandhi Irwin pact

December 1931 : The political leaders of Indian freedom struggle was


released from jail

September 1932 : Poona pact

1930 and 1932 : There was a strike by railway workers in 1930 and
dockworkers in 1932.

1934 : By 1934 the civil disobedience movement lost its momentum

14th July 1942 : The Indian National Congress endorsed the historic Quit
India Resolution.

Chapter 5 Print Culture and the Modern


World
594 ad: From 594 ad books in China were printed by wrapping paper( China
Started Print)

768 to 778ad : Hand printing Technology introduced in Japan

868 ad : The first and oldest Japanese book printed

1295 : Marco Polo returned to Italy

1448 : By 1448 Gutenberg perfected the printing press system


1450 and 1550 : Between 1450 and 1550 printing press spread all over
Europe

1517 : Religious Reform mark Martin Luther Wrote 95 theses criticizing many
of the practices and rituals of the Roman catholic churches

1579 : First Tamil book was written in Kochin

1710 : Dutch protestant Missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts

1713 : The first Malayalam book was printed

1810 : The Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas came out from Calcutta

1821 : SambadKaumudi begin to published Ram Mohan Roy

1822 : From 1822 Jaam is Jahan numa and shamshul Akbar was started

1867 : Deoband seminary was founded

1871 : Gulamgiri was published

1878 : The Vernacular Press Act

1907 : Punjab revolutionaries were deported

1930s : Great Depression

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