Sunday, 8 May 2016

Partition of Bengal (1905)



·        July 20th 1905: First Partition of Bengal is approved in London by the Secretary of State of India.

·        the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon(1899-1905). 
·        On August 7, 1905, in a public meeting at the Calcutta Town Hall, the Boycott Resolution and Swadeshi  Movement  was passed. Lokmanya Tilak had attempted a boycott of foreign cloth in 1896, but failed to elicit such response.
·        Krishna Kumar Mitra was the first to opined the boycott of British goods and Services
·        The partition took place on 16 October 1905
·        Preliminary movement against the partition of Bengal took effect under the leadership of Surendranath Bannerji.
·        The King George V at his Coronation Darbar in Delhi in December 1911 announced the revocation of the Partition of Bengal and the two parts of Bengal were reunited.  Bihar and Orissa Province was created to the west, and Assam Province to the east.
·        The administrative capital of British India was moved from Calcutta to New Delhi under the Viceroy of Lord Hardinge.
·        Delhi-Lohore Conspiracy, refers to a conspiracy in 1912 to assassinate the then Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, on the occassion of transferring the capital of British India from Calcutta to New Delhi.
·        Swadeshi Movement Leadership
o   Bombay & Pune – Lokmanya Tilak
o   Punjab & UP – Ajit Singh & Lala Lajpat Rai
o   Delhi  -  Sayed Haider Raza
o   Madras  -  Chidambram Pillai

·      Bengal National College(1906) – Aurobindo Ghosh, Principle
·      Md. Abdul Rasool headed the movement of Muslim farmers of Basisal (1906)
·      Indian Society Of Oriental Art(1907) – Abnindranath Tagore
·      National Education Yojana(1898) – Satish Chandra Mukherji



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