The Partition of Bengal 1905

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Partition Plan

Masterpiece of Internal policy to estd 2 provinces of Bengal proper and Eastern Bengal and Assam.
He described it as mere readjustment of adm reforms.
A/C to him Mymensingh and Backergange division were lawless and crime was prevalent.
New Province of Eastern Bengal and Assam had HQ at Dacca with Muslims at majority to be under a Lt Governor.
Western Bengal included Bihar and Orissa had 42mil Hindus and 9mil Mohammedans.

Administration of Bengal had become a unwieldy due to increase in population. But the real motive was political.
Curzon's aim was to make Bengali's a linguistic minority and prop up Muslims against Hindus since Bengali Nationalims and solidarity was growing.
Curzon said that his aim was to create a Mohammedan province where Islam could be predominant and in ascendancy.
led by Surendranath Banerjea, K.K. Mitra and Prithwishchandra Ray
through pamphlets and newspapers like Hitabadi, Sanjibani and Bengalee.
Mulsims who participated in Anti-Partion movement of 1902-03 were Barrister Abdul Rasul, Liaqat Hussain, Maulana Azad. Upper and middle class Muslims stayed away.
Subramnian Siva and Chidambram Pillai led strikes in Tuticorin and Tiunelveli in 1903-05.
The partition of Begal was annulled in 1911 mainly done to curb revolutionary terrorism.
Was decided to shift capital to Delhi -> end of Bengali dominance in national politics. Bihar and Orissa were taken out of Bengal and Assam was made a separate province.

The Partition of Bengal (1905); The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the
economic and political aspects of Swadeshi Movement;

Write a critical note on: Significance of the Swadeshi Movement 1905-07 in the freedom
struggle. [1981, 20m]
"Curzon's political obtusely created a breach between government and people which
was never wholly closed in the remaining forty-two years of British rule." Comment. [1984,
20m]
"Curzon was an unconscious catalyst who did not understand, let alone desire, what the
new century was about to bring forth, but who helped it to be born." Comment. [1989, 20m]
"The tragedy of Cruzan lay in that, with such abundance of trained talent; he was denied
the crowning qualities. He was never an administrator of the first rank." Comment. [1991,
20m]
"Curzon's partition of Bengal gave the unwitting initiative to events of magnitude and
returned many years later to port with the cargo of freedom." Comment. [1997, 20m]
"India after 1905 had new interests and objectives and compelled new lines of policy."
Comment. [1996, 20m]
"The Anti-Partition Agitation (1905) had an economic character in Bengal unlike the
Extremist Agitation in Maharashtra which had a religious character." Examine. [2014, 20m]
Explain "Constructive Swadeshi" Characterised by atmashakti (self-reliance), which
propelled the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal. [2016, 10m]