Terms
Glossary
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- Boycott
- Refusing British goods, institutions and honours as political protest.
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- Civil Disobedience
- Deliberately and peacefully breaking unjust laws and accepting the penalty.
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- Doctrine of Lapse
- Dalhousie's policy of annexing a princely state when its ruler died without a natural male heir.
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- Drain of Wealth
- The transfer of India's resources to Britain without equal return, as argued by Naoroji and R.C. Dutt.
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- Extremists
- Assertive nationalists such as Lal, Bal and Pal who favoured mass action and Swaraj.
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- Moderates
- Early Congress leaders who sought reform through constitutional methods and petitions.
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- Non-Cooperation
- Withdrawing participation from colonial institutions to make British rule unworkable.
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- Paramountcy
- British claim to supreme authority over Indian princely states.
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- Provincial Autonomy
- Self-government in provinces by elected Indian ministers under the 1935 Act.
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- Purna Swaraj
- Complete independence, adopted as the Congress goal in 1929.
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- Satyagraha
- Gandhi's method of non-violent resistance, 'insistence on truth'.
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- Separate Electorates
- Voting arrangements where a community elects its own representatives only.
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- Swadeshi
- 'Of one's own country': promoting Indian-made goods and institutions.
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