The Kanpur (Cawnpore) Bolshevik Conspiracy Case of 1924 was framed by the British against:

• Dange and Muzaffar Ahmad). The Kanpur (Cawnpore) Bolshevik Conspiracy Case of 1924 was framed by the British government against the early communist leaders of India.

Background:

• After the Russian Revolution of 1917, communist ideas began to spread in India.
• In the early 1920s, small communist groups were formed in several Indian cities.
• The British government was worried that communism would spread among workers and peasants and threaten British rule.

The case:

In 1924, the government arrested several communists and charged them with conspiring to "deprive the King Emperor of his sovereignty of British India" by a violent revolution, with the help of the Communist International.

The accused included S. A. Dange (Bombay), Muzaffar Ahmad (Calcutta), Shaukat Usmani and Nalini Gupta.

The trial was held at Cawnpore (Kanpur), and the accused were sentenced to four years' imprisonment each.

Effects:

• The case gave wide publicity to communist ideas in India.
• Instead of stopping the movement, it attracted the attention of young people to communism.

Later case:

In 1929, the government arrested many communist and trade union leaders in the Meerut Conspiracy Case, which lasted until 1933.

Significance:

These cases show the British fear of communism in India in the 1920s.

About S. A. Dange:

Shripad Amrit Dange was a founder of the communist movement in India and a leading trade unionist.

About Muzaffar Ahmad:

He was a pioneer of the communist movement in Bengal.

Why not the other options?

• ✗The Ghadar, Khilafat and Swarajist leaders were not the accused in this case.