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Early and Later nationalists
Assertive nationalists
Contributions of LalBalPal
Lala Lajpat Rai
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Early nationalists
Why they are called Moderates
They had faith in the British Government
Their methods of struggle were moderate
Their demands are not extreme and are of a moderate nature
Contributions of important Early nationalists
Dadabhai Naoroji
He founded the East India Association in London in
1866
Started magazine
Dharma Marg Darshak
He was the first Indian to be a member of British Parliament
Started Anglo-Gujarati newspaper
Rast Goftar
He served as the president of the Indian national Congress thrice
He started movements against the Vernacular Press Act and atrocious treatment of Zamindars with peasants
He was the first to demand Swaraj from the Congress platform
He wrote a book
Poverty and un-British Rule in India
Drain of wealth
theory was given by him
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
He used constitutional means to achieve his aims
He opposed the division of Bengal
He promoted elementary education and appointment of Indians to High posts
He was a practical idealist and a patriot to the core
He played a mojor role in the passage of Minto-Morley Reforms
He asked the government to reduce the land revenue
It was a result of his work that the toll tax was reduced
Surendranath Banerjea
He started agitations against the Arms act, Vernacular Press act and against lowering the age from 21 to 19 to appear in the ICS Examination
He vehemently opposed the Minto-Morley Reforms which introduced separate electorates
He was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress
He made demonstrations against the opression of peasants by zamindars
Its objective was to educate the people, create strong public opinion, arouse political consciousness and unity. It later merged with the Congress in 1886
He preached the use of Swadeshi and boycott of foreign goods
He founded the
Indian Association
in
1876
.
Their Methods
They believed in orderly progress and adopted costitutional methods to realise their aims
They organised annual sessions to educate the people and arouse political consciousness, public opinion and create UNITY
Peace , Prayer and Pettition
Processions, meetings, speeches were held
They believe in patience and conciliation and not in confrontation
They drafted petitions and memorandums and submitted them to the government
To influence and enlighten British deputations were sent to England
They also used the press to criticise the wrong policies of the government
a journal India started in 1890
Achievements
They gave them training in politics, agitation and struggle
They aroused the feeling of nationalism and laid the foundation for Indian nationalism.
They educated Indians and aroused political consciousness among them
They created in Indians the feeling that they belonged to one common nation, created unity.
FAILURE
They did not have a mass following
They adopted constitutional and moderate methods to achieve their goal
They believed in British and didn't see that British interests clashed with the interests of Indians
They have been accused of beggary and speeches with lack of actual determination and follow up action