FREEDOM STRUGGLE - AGE OF EXTREMISTS 1905 - 1915

AGE OF EXTREMISTS - (1905 - 1915) :-

Aurobindo Ghosh was the founder father of extremist thought. His pamphlet 'New Lamps for the Old' is regarded as the 'Bible of Extremism'. He wrote series of articles in Bangadarshan. The journal of Bakim Chandra Chatterjee. exiticising the moderate method of struggle as 'political medicancy'. He portrayed India as 'Mother' and appealed to the emotional aspects of Indian Nationalism.

Rajnarayan Bose and Ashwini kumar Dutta were the other early extremists. Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar wrote Nibandhamala, as collection of poems with extremist thought. Within the Congress, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the Lokmanya was the foremost extremist, called the father of Indian Unrest by Valentine Chirole; founded Ganesh festival committee in 1895 sentenced for 18 month imprisonment for supporting the in 1897; wrote 'Gita Rahasys'

Lala Lajpat Rai called the Punjab Kesari wrote 'unhoppy India' and Bipin Chandra Pal, editor of Bengali opinion and founder of the journal 'New India' were the other extremists in the Congress.

The extremist thought deriyed its support form the teachings of Vivekananda and Dayanand Saraswati. The extremist slogan. 'Swarjya' was first introduced by Arya Samaj.

The events outside India like Abyssinia defeating Italy, Japan defecting Russia in 1905, did have their impact on extremist movement in India.