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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
SESSION 2020-21
CLASS-X
HISTORY- Ch-1- CH-2-NATIONALISM IN INDIA
Lesson Notes
Subtopic: 3- Towards Civil Disobedience

3.2 How Participants saw the Movement
3.3 The Limits of Civil Disobedience

Sub-Topic Notes
Round Table Conferences

The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–32 were a series of peace conferences
organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional
reforms in India. These started in November 1930 and ended in December 1932.

1.First Round Table Conference (November 1930 – January 1931)

2.Second Round Table Conference (September 1931. December 1931)

3.Third Round Table Conference (November – December 1932)-The third and last session
assembled on November 17, 1932. Only forty-six delegates attended since most of the main
political figures of India were not present. The Labour Party from Britain and the Indian National
Congress refused to attend.

Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA)

BOX-1
‘To the altar of this revolution we have brought our youth as incense’
Many nationalists thought that the struggle against the British could not be won through non-
violence.
Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA)
founded in 1928
Some prominent leaders:
Bhagat Singh,
Jatin Das
Ajoy Ghosh
Revolutionary Action-
 In April 1929, Bhagat Singh and Batukeswar Dutta threw a bomb in the Legislative
Assembly.
 In the same year there was an attempt to blow up the train that Lord Irwin was travelling in.
Bhagat Singh was 23 when he was tried and executed by the colonial government. During his
trial, Bhagat Singh stated that he did not wish to glorify ‘the cult of the bomb and pistol’ but wanted
a revolution in society: ‘Revolution is the inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is the