Swadeshi Movement
- August 7, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: History
Context:
National Handloom Day is celebrate on 7 August to commemorate launch of Swadeshi Movement in 1905.
Concept:
- In 1900, Bengal was the major province in British India. The Indian national movement began in Bengal and thus, Britishers decided to part Bengal.
- When Lord Curzon, then Viceroy of India, announced the partition of Bengal in July 1905, Indian National Congress, initiated Swadeshi movement in Bengal.
- Swadeshi movement was launched as a protest movement which also gave a lead to the Boycott movement in the country.
- In 1909, the movement had spread across the country and people had started anti-partition and anti-colonial movements.
- In 1910, there were many secret associations that had been set up and there were many revolutionary movements, which were synonymous to Swadeshi movement
- Key people in the Swadeshi movement: Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, LalaLajpat Rai, Aurobindo Ghosh, VO Chidambaram Pillai and Babu Genu