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The Extremists, Swadeshi and Home Rule

The Extremists, Swadeshi and Home Rule for UPSC Prelims and Mains, taught in 2 parts. Each part has tables, exam traps, a recap and practice questions.

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Both parts of the chapter condensed for quick revision: why extremism grew, the Extremist leaders, Curzon and the partition of Bengal, the Swadeshi movement and its methods, the Surat split and the repression, the Muslim League and the Morley-Minto Reforms, the Delhi Durbar of 1911, the Lucknow Pact, the Home Rule Leagues and the Montagu declaration.

Parts of this chapter

Part 1

The Extremists, the partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi movement

Why an assertive nationalism grew in the 1890s (disappointment, famine and plague, Tilak's trial, Adowa and Japan), the Extremist leaders and their ideas compared with the Moderates, Curzon's measures, the partition of Bengal (in force 16 October 1905), the boycott resolution of 7 August 1905, the methods of the Swadeshi movement, its spread beyond Bengal, the Benares (1905) and Calcutta (1906) sessions, and the movement's limits and legacy. Part 2

Surat split, separate electorates and Home Rule, 1907–1917

The Surat split of 1907 and the Moderates' hold on the Congress, the repression of the Extremists (the laws of 1907–1910, Tilak's sentence of 1908), the Simla deputation and the founding of the Muslim League (1906), the Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909 and separate electorates, the Delhi Durbar of 1911, the Lucknow session and pact of 1916, the Home Rule Leagues of Tilak and Besant, and the Montagu declaration of 20 August 1917.

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