Contribution of swadeshi movement towards national education. For class x standard
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Swadeshi Movement, now known as 'Make in India' campaign was officially proclaimed on August 7, 1905 at the Calcutta Town Hall, in Bengal. Boycott movement was also launched along with the Swadeshi movement. The movements included using goods produced in India and burning British-made goods.. Bal Gandadhar Tilak encouraged Swadeshi and Boycott movement after the British government decided the partition of Bengal.
Timeline of Swadeshi movement:
In 1900, Bengal was the major province in British India. The Indian national movement began in Bengal and thus, Britishers decided to part Bengal.
When Lord Curzon, then Viceroy of India, announced the partition of Bengal in July 1905, Indian National Congress, initiated Swadeshi movement in Bengal. Swadeshi movement was launched as a protest movement which also gave a lead to the Boycott movement in the country.
In 1909, the movement had spread across the country and people had started anti-partition and anti-colonial movements. In Andhra Pradesh, the Swadeshi movement was also known as Vandemataram movement
In 1910, there were many secret associations that had been set up and there were many revolutionary movements, which were synonymous to Swadeshi movement
Later movements by Mahatma Gandhi from 1915, such as Satyagraha movement, Non-Cooperation movement etc. were based on Swadeshi movement.
Answer:
One of the major contribution of Swadeshi movement was in the field of the development of national education.
Explanation:
The movement caught the attention of the student community and many of them took active participation in the Swadeshi movement.The result was that the Chief Secretary of the province of Bengal,R.W.Carlyle circulated a notice on 10th October 1905 warning students not to join the movement against the government. The student community made a strong protests against this order and observed a walk-out of the classroom as a mark of protest.
Prominent leaders like Bipin Chandra Paul,Rabindranath Tagore,Abdul Rasul ,etc called upon the students to come away from the government schools and colleges.On 8th November 1905,Rabindranath Tagore established a set of educational institution named 'Banga Jatiya Vidyalaya' in Calcutta and at Rangpur.
Following Rabindranath Tagore's example,many eminent personalities set up different schools all over Bengal. Under the leadership of Rasbihari Bose,the National Education Council (Karita Siksha Parishad) was formed on 11th March 1906 at Town Hall, Calcutta.
Similarly National schools were established in different parts of the country as part of the Swadeshi Movement. They included Bihar Vidyapeeth,Patna,Samarth Vidyalaya, Maharashtra and Gujarat Vidyalaya,etc.