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Swadeshi movement

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...