Era of Militant Nationalism (1905-1909)

Question 1

Three ‘P’s”of moderates

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prayer, petition and protes

Question 2

Dayananda’s political message was ‘

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India for the Indians’.

Question 3

nationalist thinkers with Militant School of Thought

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Raj Narain Bose, Ashwini Kumar Datta, Aurobindo Ghosh and Bipin Chandra Pal in Bengal;
Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
in Maharashtra; and
Lala Lajpat Rai in Punjab

Question 4

British government’s decision to partition Bengal had

been made public in

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December 1903

Question 5

On August 7, 1905, with the passage of , the formal

proclamation of Swadeshi Movement was made.

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the Boycott Resolution in a massive

meeting held in the Calcutta Townhall

Question 6

Amar Sonar Bangla’, the national anthem of

present-day Bangladesh, during swadeshi movement was composed by

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Rabindranath Tagore,

Question 7

Swadeshi movement spread to other parts of the

country—

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in Poona and Bombay under Tilak,
in Punjab under Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh,
in Delhi under Syed Haider Raza, and in Madras under Chidambaram Pillai.

Question 8

it was declared that the goal of the Indian National Congress was “self-government or swaraj like the United Kingdom or the colonies” of Australia or Canada

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Congress session held at Calcutta

(1906) under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji

Question 9

make the administration under present conditions impossible by an organised refusal to do anything which will help either the British commerce in the exploitation of the country or British officialdom in the administration of it”.

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Aurobindo Ghosh

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Political freedom is the lifebreath of a nation,” declared

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Aurobindo Ghosh

Question 11

Swadesh Bandhab Samiti during swadeshi movement of (

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Ashwini Kumar Dutta

Question 12

Swadeshi Sangam formed in

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In Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu by V.O. Chidambaram Pillai, Subramania Siva

Question 13

Bengal National College, inspired by Tagore’s Shantiniketan, was set up with

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Aurobindo Ghosh as its principal

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was set up for technical education and funds were raised to send students to Japan for advanced learning

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A Bengal Institute of Technology

Question 15

Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company—at

Tuticorin,

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V.O. Chidambaram Pillai’s venture into a national shipbuilding enterprise

Question 16

The nationalists of all hues took inspiration from songs

written by

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Rabindranath Tagore, Rajnikant Sen, Dwijendralal

Ray, Mukunda Das, Syed Abu Mohammad a

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wrote Sudesha Geetham

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In Tamil Nadu, Subramania Bharati

Question 18

who left a major imprint on Indian art, was the first recipient of a scholarship offered by the Indian Society of Oriental Art, founded in 1907.

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Nandalal

Bose

Question 19

Muslims participated who participated in Swadeshi movement

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Barrister Abdul Rasul, Liaqat Hussain, Guznavi, Maulana Azad

Question 20

most of the upper and middle class Muslims stayed away or, led by

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Nawab Salimullah of Dacca

Question 21

walked out in protest against a derogatory work regulation

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Bengali clerks of the Burn Company, Howrah,

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led strikes in Tuticorin and Tirunelveli in a foreign-owned cotton mill

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Subramania Siva and Chidambaram Pillai

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In Rawalpindi (Punjab), the arsenal and railway workers went on strike led by

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Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh

Question 24

the social base of the Swadeshi movement expanded to

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include certain sections of the zamindari, the students, the women, and the lower middle classes in cities and towns

Question 25

It was decided to annul the partition of Bengal in 1911 mainly

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to curb the menace of revolutionary terrorism.

Question 26

Swadeshi movement largely remained confined to the

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upper and middle classes and zamindars, and failed to reach the masses—especially the peasantry

Question 27

Believed in England’s providential mission in India

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Moderates

Question 28

Tilak’s opposition to

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the Age of Consent Bill (which would have raised the

marriageable age for girls from 10 years to 12 years

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Also a resolution supporting the programme of swadeshi, boycott and national education was passed.

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At the Calcutta session of the Congress in December

1906

Question 30

The Extremists wanted the 1907 session to be held into be held in

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Nagpur

Question 31

Tilak, the main Extremist leader, was tried in 1909 for sedition for

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what he had written in 1908 in his Kesari about a bomb thrown by Bengal revolutionaries in Muzaffarpur, resulting in the death of two innocent European wome

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the policy was to be of ‘rallying them’ or the policy of ‘carrot and stick’.

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(John Morley— the secretary of state)

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Simla

Deputation, led by

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the Agha Khan, met Lord Minto and demanded separate electorates for the Muslims and representation in excess of their numerical strength

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Muslim League, initially floated by

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Nawab Salimullah of Dacca along with Nawabs Mohsin-ul-Mulk and Waqar-ul- Mulk in

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also went to England to meet the Secretary of State for India, John Morley, to put Congress demands of self-governing system similar to that in the other British colonies.

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Question 36

The elective principle was recognised for the nonofficial membership of the councils in India

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Indian Councils Act of 1909.

Question 37

For the first time, separate electorates for Muslims

for election to the central council was established

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Indian Councils Act of 1909.

Question 38

In the provincial councils, non-official majority

was introduced,

Answer 38

Indian Councils Act of 1909.

Question 39

the budget as a whole could not be voted upon.

Answer 39

Indian Councils Act of 1909.

Question 40

One Indian was to be appointed to the viceroy’s
executive council (Satyendra Sinha was the first Indian to be appointed in 1909).

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Indian Councils Act of 1909.

Question 41

The elected members were to be indirectly elected

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Indian Councils Act of 1909.

Question 42

“If it could be said that this chapter of reforms led directly or indirectly to the establishment of a parliamentary system in India, I, for one, would have nothing at all to do with it.

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Lord Morley

Question 43

it gave the impression of “infiltration of legislators through a number of sieves

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Indian Councils Act of 1909.