CHRONOLOGIAL OVERVIEW:
1893-1914
Proceeded to Natal in South Africa as a lawyers of a firm in
Porbanar
1914
Awarded Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal for raising an India
amblance unit during the second Boer War and the First World War
1915
January - Returns
to India from South Africa.
May - Foundation of the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad.
1917-18
Launched Satyagrahas in Champaran(North Bihar),
Kaira(Gujarat).
1919
Launches
anti-Rowlatt(Seditious Activities Act) Satyagraha.
April 6, a
nation wide strike against the Act.
April 13,
JallianwalaBagh Massacre.
Gandhi returns Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal to protest against
the massacre.
1919
November
Gandhi supports the Khilafat demand.
The All-India Khilafat Conference elected Gandhi as its
President.
1922
February 1,
Gandhi announces intention of calling for mass civil disobedience at
Bardoli(Gujarat).
February 5, outbreak of violence at ChauriChaura in the
United Provinces.Working Committee at Bardoli call off plans for the Civil
Disobedience.
1924
December 26-27, Belgaum session of the Congress- for the
first and the last time Gandhi elected President of the Congress.
1928
February Successful Satyagraha campaign against land-tax
increase in Bardoli subdivision of Gujarat. Approved of the Nehru Report at.
1929
December The Lahore session of the Congress passes the
PoornaSwarajya Resolution. Gandhi drafts the PoornaSwarajya pledge to be taken
by people all-over India on January 26,1930.
1930
March 12- April6 Gandhi leads 78 of his select disciples from
the Sabarmati Ashram to the sea-Coast at Dandi in Gujarat to break the salt
laws.
1932
The British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald announces the
infamous Communal Award granting separate electorate to the Depressed
Classes(August 17); Gandhi launches fast unto death against the Communal Award
in the prison(September 20);Gandhi gives up fast after the Poona Pact(September
25) and starts on All-India Anti-UntouchabilityLeauge (later on known as the
HarijanSewakSangh).
1933
Ganhi starts the weekly Harijan Encourages the Temple Entry
Bill in the Central Legislature.
1934-39
Gandhi
retires from active politics and severs his formal links with the Congress to
devote all his energies to the cause foHarijians .
Sets up Sevagram (Wardha Ashram) and undertakes the longest
nation-wide tour known as HarijianYatra.
1939
Gandhi resumes active politics in the wake of the Second
World War and opposes the candidature of subhash Chandra Bose as the President
of the Congress at the Tripuri session (March 10-12, 1939).
1940
Gandhi launches the Individual Satyagraha.
1942
Cripps
Mission visits India and announces the Draft Proposals.
The
Congress rejects the Cripps Proposals, Gandhi calls the Proposals as “the
post-dated cheque on a falling Bank.
April 19,
Gandhi suggests the immediate withdrawal of the British from India and wrote in
the Harijan(May 24).
We are
fixed ain determination that British rule in any shape or form must end.
July 14,
the Congress Working Committee at Wardha passes the Quit India Resolution.
August 8,
the AICC, which met in Bombay, ratified the historic Quit India Resolution,
followed by Gandhi’s memorable utterance, Iam not going to be satisfied with
anything short of complete freedom We shall do or die, We shall either free
India or die in attempt.
1942
(August 9)-1944(May) Gandhi kept in detention at the Aga Khan
Palace, near Pune;Gandhi lost his life-long companion Kasturba(February 22,
1944) this was Gandhi’s last prison term.
1946
Deeply distressed by the orgyof communal violence, as a
result Muslim League’s Direct Action call, Gandhi travelled to Noakhali (East
Bengal- now Bangladesh) and later on to Calcutta to restore communal peace.
1947
Gandhi observes complete silence on the dawn of India’s
Independence (August 15, 1947) Gandhi returns back to Delhi(September).
1948
Gandhi beigns the last fast of his life in Delhi on January
13, to restore communal peace.
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