Growth of Nationalism - Part 1

Introduction

• Author: Jai Hind Students
• Subject: Growth of Nationalism
• Target Audience: Humanities Students, ISC Board
• Director: Channel 'Star Art'
• Focus: Pre-1905 and Anti-Partition Movement
• Division into two parts: Anti-Partition Movement and Revolutionary Movement

Condition of India (During Colonization)

• India was divided into small states
• Different states - Rajasthan (Rajputs), Hyderabad (Nizam), Kashmir (Raja Gulab Singh)
• The British unified the whole of India into one administrative unit
• It was interconnected through the railway network, telegraph system
• British atrocities awakened the feeling of unity and patriotism

Rise of Nationalism

• The British ruled for 200 years
• Atrocities increased patriotism
• Discussion on the pre-1905 situation
• Notes available on the Telegram channel 'Rockstar Art'

Partition of Bengal

• Influence of the Renaissance in Europe
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy started fighting against the British on legal issues
• Opposition to the Press Ordinance
• Opposition to the Sati practice

Early Societies

• Landholder Society of Bengal (Dwarkanath Tagore)
• Madras Native Organization, Lord Curzon's era
• Indian League (1875)
• Indian National Conference (Surendranath Banerjee)
• Indian National Congress (1885) - Founder: AO Hume

Lord Curzon and Partition of Bengal

• Arrival of Lord Curzon
• British Canning and Divide and Rule policy
• Partition of Bengal - separating Assam and Bengal
• Lord Curzon tried to gather support from Muslims
• The real reason behind the partition of Bengal

Anti-Partition Movement

• Opposition to the partition in 1905
• Strike, Ganga bath, Raksha Bandhan on 16 October 1905
• Mantra of self-power - Rabindranath Tagore

Swadeshi Movement

• Promotion of Swadeshi clothes
• Boycott of foreign goods
• Beginning of National Education
• Contribution of Ashwin Kumar Dutta and Satish Chandra Mukherjee
• Bipin Chandra Pal and passive resistance
• Krishna Kumar Mitra and the boycott idea

Participation of Students

• Picketing of foreign shops
• Repression by the British - actions against schools and colleges

National Education

• National College, Brijmohan College, Jadavpur University
• Beginning of indigenous industries
• Swadeshi banks and insurance companies

Fifth Stage

• Active resistance, revolutionary nationalism
• Bomb attack on Lord Hardinge

Impact of the Movement

• Baton charge, arrests, banning of Vande Mataram
• Split in Congress - Moderates and Extremists
• Leadership vacuum after 1908
• Middle-class movement
• Decline of terrorism and the movement

Conclusion

• Details of the revolutionary movement in part two
• Notes available on the Telegram channel
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