Iskra ( The Spark)

Reason :- Partition on Bengal ( on religion base ) Start of Boycott :- In starting , after partition of Bengal , People do meetings, sign petitions etc , but all this failed to give result All this was impressive, making the educated middle class's case against the partition loud and clear. The evident failure of these methods, therefore, led to a search for new   techniques from the middle of 1905 and resulted in the discovery of the boycott of British   goods as an effective weapon. The boycott suggestion first came from Krishnakumar Mitra's Sanjivani on 3 July, 1905 , and was later accepted by the prominent publicmen at the Town Hall meeting of 7 August, 1905. T he discovery was followed by the calls of Rabindranath Tagore and Ramendra Sunder Trivedi, respectively, for the observance of rakshu-bandhun (the tying of thread wristlets on each other's hands as a symbol of brotherhood) and arandhan (the keeping of the hearth unlit at all the homes as a...

1.) Views on Bengal partition and swadeshi movement :- The extremists wanted to extend the Swadeshi and Boycott movement from Bengal to the rest of the country and extent boycott to every form of association with the colonial government.                                         VS The moderates wanted to confine the Boycott movement to Bengal and even there to limit it to the boycott foreign goods. In 1905 , Gokhale, a moderate was president of congress and so, swadeshi movement was limited to Bengal and foreign goods 2.) In 1906, at Calcutta Session :- Both the groups put their candidates for president ship but Dadabhai Naroji was accepted as a compromise candidate by both of groups. The Extremists group also succeeded in getting a resolution which emphasised the principle of s...

Britain’s relationship with her Indian colony was one of political subordination, but economic exploitation formed the core of this relationship. This process of colonization was geared clearly to benefit the mother country, even at the cost of the colony. Colonial exploitation was carried on broadly through three phases. The first phase :- (1757-1813) of ‘mercantilism’ was one of direct plunder in which surplus Indian revenues were used to buy Indian finished goods to be exported to England. second phase   :- (1813-1858) of free trade India was converted into a source of raw material and a market for British manufactured goods. The third phase :- (1858 onwards) was one of finance imperialism in which British capital controlled banks, foreign trading firms and managing agencies in India. The first phase :- This ‘First Phase’ is generally dated from 1757, when the British East India Company acquired the rights to collect revenue from its territories i...