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Swadeshi, Extremists and Home Rule 1905-1918

Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi movement

Practise 5 PYQs

Concepts to cover

  1. Curzon's partition effective 16 October 1905, Rakhi and Amar Sonar Bangla, Barisal conference 1906, Bengal-wide protest
  2. Boycott resolution Calcutta Town Hall 7 August 1905, swadeshi and boycott adopted for the first time as methods of struggle, picketing and volunteer samitis
  3. Bengal National College with Aurobindo as principal, National Council of Education 1906, Bengal Technical Institute
  4. 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
  5. Delhi Durbar 1911, George V annuls partition, capital moves to Delhi, Bihar and Orissa separated
  6. How Swadeshi produced Extremists and Moderates as camps, leading to Surat 1907
  7. Swadeshi social participation and limits: students, women, workers, peasants and Muslim participation; repression and decline
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