Modern history

Concepts to cover

1. Tilak, Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal, Aurobindo: swaraj as birthright, self-reliance, passive resistance, cultural pride
2. Differences over goals, methods, social base and the Moderates' faith in British justice
3. Surat December 1907: Extremists' distrust of Moderates' capacity, dispute over the president and resolutions, Congress captured by Moderates till 1916
4. Seditious Meetings Act 1907, Newspaper Act 1908, Tilak's six years in Mandalay, Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh deported 1907
5. Rise of militant nationalism: colonial underdevelopment, educated unemployment, repression, self-confidence and international examples