The Beginning of Revolutionary Extremism in India

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Proponents of the Military school of thought were ==Lal Bal Pal as well as Raj Narain Bose, Ashwini Kumar Datta, Aurobindo Ghosh, Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar==.
- Chiplunkar wrote Kavyetihas Sangraha with objective of better familiarisation of poetry and history of Maharashtra.
Ramosi Peasant Force was organised by Vasudev Balwant Phadke in 1879, which aimed to rid the country of the British by instigating an armed revolt.
Tilak propagated militant nationalism through Ganapati and Shivaji festivals and through his journals Kesari and Maharatta .
Chapekar brothers killed the Plague commissioner in Poona in 1897.
Savarkar organised Mitra Mela as a secret society in 1899 it merged with Abhinav Bharat in 1904.
Nasik, Poona and Bombay emerged as centres of bomb manufature.
In Punjab Lala Lajpat Rai who brought out Punjabee and Ajit Singh (Bhagat Singh’s uncle) who organised the extremist Anjuman-i-Mohisban-i-Watan in Lahore with its journal, Bharat Mata.
Shyamjii Krishnavarma founded the ==Indian Home Rule Society - ‘India House’== in 1905 as a schoarship scheme to bring out radical youth from India he also started a journal The Indian Sociologist.
Bhikaji Cama brought out Bande Mataram journal.
Prior to Ghadr, revolutionaries had set up Swadesh Sevak Home at Vancouver and United India House at Seattle.
political mendicancy of the moderates and the failure of the extremists to give a positive lead to the people.
Assassination of unpopular British officials and use their trial as method to spread their revolutionary idea .
dacoities to raise funds for arms and ammunitions.
extremists also failed to give a positive energy to the young revolutionary minds, they also did not opposed them politically or ideologically.
Rev. lacked a mass base and severe repression from the colonial state led to their demise.

Sumit Sarkar : shift from non-violence to violence, mass action to elite action, necessitated by failure of mass mob efforts.
West - Ramosi peasant force, Chapekar brothers, youth clubs.
East - Akhadas/ gyms,
Real Beginning - Bengal 1902 Midnapur Society, Gym by Sarala Ghosal, Atomonnoti Samiti, Ansushilan Samiti by Satishchandra Basu, Dacca Anushilan Samiti 1906 - Pulin Behari Ghosh, Yugantar, Calcutta Anushilan Sam
Rangpur robbery, assassination of spies, officials, K Bose + Chaki Kingsford.
After manikatal bomb conspiracy trial, rev activity went underground
1911 Rev act moved to Pun + UP.
1912 - ass attempt Hardinge.
1914 Komagata Maru.

All questions of Revolutionary Extremist is compiled at one place in chapter 11