History & Civics
What repressive measures were taken by the Government to suppress the Assertive Nationalists after the Surat Split?
Answer
The government took the following repressive measures to suppress the Assertive Nationalists after the Surat Split:
- Since the movement for boycott of British goods was gaining ground, the Government launched a campaign of repression.
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak was lodged in Myanmar's Mandalay prison.
- Under the Seditious Meetings Act of 1907, the District Magistrates could prohibit the holding of meetings.
- The Newspapers Act of 1908 was aimed at punishing those editors whose papers contained writings against British rule.
- Rajani Palme Dutt says, "Police action was carried out with great vigour…school-children were arrested for singing national songs."
- Such measures failed to arrest the nationalist movement. On the contrary, there grew up revolutionary groups in Bengal and Punjab.
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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?
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Read the two statements given below about the split in Congress and select the option that shows the correct relationship between (A) and (B).
(A) Leaders with moderate political opinions wanted to insert a Clause in the Congress Constitution that said that Swaraj was to be achieved through constitutional means.
(B) Swadeshi and Boycott were the basic components of methods of struggle of the assertive nationalists that led to the split in the Congress in 1907.
- (B) contradicts (A).
- (B) is the reason for (A).
- (A) is true, but (B) is false.
- (A) and (B) are independent of each other.