Day: February 9, 2015

The Partition of Bengal (1905), the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of Swadeshi Movement: III Drawbacks of Swadeshi Movement: Swadeshi Movement was not able to garner the support of the mass of Muslims and  especially of the Muslim peasantry. The British policy of consciously attempting to use communalism to turn the […]

The Moderates and Extremists: Part V Nature of Extremism: The extremists talked of democracy and talked of broadening the social base of the national movement. Extremists had wide social base of political agitations, they involved lower middle class and middle class public apart from educated class of people. They spoke, wrote and edited newspapers in […]

The Foundation of the Indian National Congress; The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress; Programme and objectives of Early Congress The Origin of the Indian National Congress: Many Indians were planning to establish an all India organization of nationalist political workers. But the credit for organizing the first meeting of the Indian […]

Politics of Association before Congress The political associations in the early half of the nineteenth century were dominated by wealthy and aristocratic elements, local or regional in character, and through long petitions to the British Parliament demanded Administrative reforms, Association of Indians with the administration, and Spread of education. The second half of the 19th […]

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