UPSC · Prelims and Mains
Modern Indian History
← Swadeshi, Extremists and Home Rule 1905-1918Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi movement
- Curzon's partition effective 16 October 1905, Rakhi and Amar Sonar Bangla, Barisal conference 1906, Bengal-wide protest
- Boycott resolution Calcutta Town Hall 7 August 1905, swadeshi and boycott adopted for the first time as methods of struggle, picketing and volunteer samitis
- Bengal National College with Aurobindo as principal, National Council of Education 1906, Bengal Technical Institute
- Revival of crafts and industries, Bengal Chemicals, Banga Lakshmi mills; Deuskar's Desher Katha 1904 on the colonial conquest of the mind and its all-India sense of desh; swadeshi plays and songs
- Delhi Durbar 1911, George V annuls partition, capital moves to Delhi, Bihar and Orissa separated
- How Swadeshi produced Extremists and Moderates as camps, leading to Surat 1907
- Swadeshi social participation and limits: students, women, workers, peasants and Muslim participation; repression and decline
