Swadeshi, Extremists and Home Rule 1905-1918
Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi movement
Practise 5 PYQsConcepts to cover
- 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
Where to study
India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others
- ch. 10 The Swadeshi Movement 1903-1908, pp. 124-134
- ch. 11 The Split in the Congress and the Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism, pp. 135-145
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 12 Era of Militant Nationalism (1905-1909)
Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History
- ch. 2 Rise of Extremism and Swadeshi Movement
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, pp. 1-20 (printed 93-112)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Freedom is our birthright, p. 5 (printed 97)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Freedom is our birthright, pp. 5-6 (printed 97-98)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Freedom is our birthright, p. 6 (printed 98)
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 6: Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation
- ch. 6 Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation, The Agenda for a National Education, pp. 8-9 (printed 72-73)