Notable revolutionaries

During the American Revolution, a number of men and women rose to prominence: George Washington, Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and countless others distinguished themselves by their courage, patriotism, wisdom and talent.

To become a revolutionary, you need to persuade people to listen to it. That’s the challenging part. You have to be a workaholic. Success requires an extraordinary amount of work, but if you don’t take breaks, you will burn out and lose the energy and creativity that you need to implement your ideas.

As nouns the difference between revolutionary and revolution is that revolutionary is a revolutionist; a person who revolts while revolution is a political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.

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Mangal Pandey

It was Aurobindo Ghosh, his brother Barin Ghosh, Bhupendranath Datta, Lal Bal Pal and Subodh Chandra Mullick initiated the revolutionary activity against the tyrant British rule. They formed a Jugantar party in April 1906 AD as an inner circle of the Anushilan Samiti.

The revolutionaries were the nationalists who believed in “revolutionary methods” (The use of violence to make a radical change) within society necessary to over throw British rule. Most of the radicals followed the revolutionary methods such as; Large public meetings and demonstrations.

The conflict officially concluded two years later with the 1783 Treaty of Paris in which the British abandoned all claims in the US.

• The French Revolution (1789 – 1799) Storming Bastille tower, July 14, 1789.
• The Haitian Revolution (1791 – 1804)
• The Chinese Revolution (1911)

Aurobindo Ghosh

What was the Revolutionary movement at its core really about? The colonists wanted human rights and liberty for all.

The new movements instead of pushing for specific changes in public policy emphasize social changes in identity, lifestyle and culture. Examples of those new movements include the women’s movement, the ecology movement, gay rights movement and various peace movements, among others.

Social movements among tribes aim at collective action to alter, reconstitute, reinterpret, restore and protect social structure, with a view to improve social, cultural, economic and political conditions of the tribal people. Some movements have asserted their tribal identity and political solidarity.

A peasant movement is a social movement involved with the agricultural policy, which claims peasants rights. Peasant movements have a long history that can be traced to the numerous peasant uprisings that occurred in various regions of the world throughout human history.

small-scale social organization in which PEASANTS predominate with features distinctive from other social groupings. While sometimes the term is used to refer to a large SOCIETY in which peasants are the majority, most usages would limit the term to a narrower meaning approximating to COMMUNITY.