(a) Agitation against the partition of Bengal
(b) Home Rule Movement
(c) Non-Cooperation Movement
(d) Visit of Simon Commission to India
- Answer: (a)
Option (a) is correct: The ‘Swadeshi’ and ‘Boycott’ were adopted as methods of struggle for the first time during the agitation against the partition of Bengal. The Swadeshi movement of Bengal (1905-1908) is seen as an important historical event in the episodic narrative of the Indian Nationalist Movement, which takes the story forward to its eventual climax in 1947. Lord Curzon’s unpopular decision to partition the province of Bengal in 1905, led to this popular movement, which was organised around the effective use of ‘swadeshi’ and ‘boycott’ as methods of agitation, under Extremist leadership. The subsequent unification of Bengal in 1911 came to be regarded as a marker of the movement’s success Mahatma Gandhi described Swadeshi as “a call to the consumer to be aware of the violence he is causing by supporting those industries that result in poverty, harm to workers and to humans and other creatures.” The Swadeshi Movement was an attempt to take economic power from the British using domestic made products
