Freedom Struggle of India

Phase of Moderates--

The main objective of moderates was to awaken the people of India by launching their movement and putting their demands in a democratic way. Their demand were very soft in nature and they did not try to irritated the British. In a initial stage ,therefore this stage was known as Phase of Moderate.The main leaders of moderate were Dadabhai Naroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Surendranath Banerjee, Badruddin Tyabji, Firojshah Mehta etc.

Dadabhai Naoroji --

Dadabhai Naoroji known as the “Grand Old Man of India”. He was the first Indian who was elected to the house of commons in Britain. He was the professor in Presidency College of Bombay. He was the first Indian who ‘Measure the National Income of India’. In this article “india’s debt to England” become concept of “Drain of Wealth”. His famous book was “Poverty and Un-British Rule in India”.

Gopal Krishna Gokhela--

 Gopal Krishna Gokhale was Political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi. He was first leader of congress who put the demand of Swaraj from the congress platform, his famous paper was “Sudharak”

Extremist--

By the 1905 some new young leaders emerge to oppose the policy of moderates and they advocated for an aggressive policy against the british imperialism.This leaders known as Extremist. The main Extremist leaders were Balgangadhar Tilak, Lala Rajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal, Aurobindro Ghosh. Aurobindra Ghosh gave the concept in his important article was “new lamps for old” .He was the principle of Bengal National College .The difference of Moderate and Extremist came to the surface when Bengal was Partition in July 1905 by lord Curzon.