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Making National Movement Part 3
Making National Movement Part 3
•Partition of Bengal
•In 1905 by Lord Curzon
•Bengal was biggest province of British India and included
Bihar and Odisha
•Tied to British interests
•Rather than removing the non-Bengali areas from the
province, government separated East Bengaland merged it
with Assam
•British wanted to curtail influence of Bengali politicians
and split Bengali people
•Both moderates and extremists opposed it
•Public meetings and demonstrations were made
Swadeshi Movement
•Had contact with various types of Indians: Hindus, Muslims, Parsis and
Christians; Gujaratis, Tamilsand north Indians; and upper-class merchants,
lawyers and workers