Multiple Forms of Upsurge

  • In Bengal, Surya Sen’s Chittagong Revolt Group undertook raid on two armouries and declared establishment of a provisional government in Chittagong.
  • In Peshawar, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan’s educational and social reform work among the Pathans had politicised them. Gaffar Khan (also called Badshah Khan and Frontier Gandhi), who had started the first Pushto political monthly Pukhtoon, organised a volunteer brigade of ‘Khudai Khidmatgars’, or the ‘Red-Shirts’, adherents of non-violent form of freedom struggle.
  • In Sholapur, from May 7 onwards, textile workers went on a strike and with other residents burnt liquor shops and other symbols of government authority such as railway stations, ....
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