History & Civics
Answer
The important developments at the Surat Session that led to the Split in the Congress were:
- The word 'Swaraj' was uttered for the first time by any Congress President in the Kolkata Session in 1906.
- Another remarkable feature of the Kolkata Session was that the resolutions on 'Swadeshi' and 'Boycott' were also adopted by the Congress.
- This dearly showed that dynamism was gaining ground in the Congress.
- Leaders having moderate political opinions, were not happy with these developments.
- They wanted to insert a clause in the Congress Constitution that Swaraj was to be achieved through constitutional means.
- Assertive nationalists, on the other hand, believed that unless they put strong pressure on the government, they would never achieve their objective.
- Swadeshi and Boycott were the basic components of their programme and methods of struggle.
- That is why the Congress got split in 1907 at Surat.
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Rabindranath Tagore endorsed the Swadeshi movement through his songs and poems. There was a change in his attitude as noted by Sumit Sarkar in his book, Swadeshi Movement in Bengal. He says: "[From] trying in vain to placate the foreign ruler and talking big in a foreign tongue, he (Tagore) urges volunteers to the villages instead, spreading social and political enlightment in the melas and through magic lantern lectures, and, above all to revive our traditional samaj, channelling all constructive work through it once again."
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(b) How did the people react to the Partition of Bengal?
(c) What was Lord Curzon's argument in favour of the Partition of Bengal? How did the nationalists interpret Lord Curzon's motives?
Name any two papers started by Tilak to propagate his faith.