of time in Indian history. The novel examines the lives of three main characters during the beginnings of the Swadeshi protest movement in Bengali India. While Tagore explores several main themes in his novel including the role of gender‚ religion‚ and romance into the triangular narrative‚ it is the political and national theme portrayed through the Swadeshi movement that both brings together and tears apart these three main characters. This movement was part of the national independence movement
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1947‚ India had achieved independence. For most of the Nineteenth Century‚ India was ruled by the British. India was considered the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. Queen Victoria had been made Empress of India and the British had a major military presence in India. Indian nationals had no say in central government and even at a local level‚ their influence on policy and decision making was minimal. In 1885‚ educated middle class nationals had founded the Indian National Conference (INC)
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assimilation approach and the integration approach. Verrier Elwin‚ a citizen of Great Britain‚ came to India in 1927 as a Christian missionary. Elwin felt that the tribes were the most vulnerable groups in society who must be kept separate from the rest of Indian society in order to conserve and preserve their ethnic identity‚ their tribal social structures‚ their culture‚ and their way of life. He strongly believed that contact with the rest of India would place the tribes in an unequal contest with the nontribal
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Third Phrase of Gandhi’s Leadership in Indian Freedom Struggle:1930 - 1947 Civil Disobedience Movement: There were so many cause of the civil disobedience movement but the main cause of the civil disobedience movement was the salt tax and Gandhi demanded that the salt tax should be abolished. The government tells the gandhi’s demand was not a legal demand. And then Gandhi started the civil disobedience movement on 12 march 1930 with his famous Dandi march. Gandhi marched almost 375 km with his
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Non – cooperation movement The Non-Cooperation Movement was a significant phase of the Indian struggle for freedom from British rule. It was led by Mahatma Gandhi and was supported by the Indian National Congress. It aimed to resist British occupation in India through non-violent means. Protestors and followers followed the swadeshi and boycott movement. The ideals of Ahimsa or non-violence had mass movement on a very large scale was seen for the first time. Among the significant causes of this
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Sabarmati Ashram is located in the Ahmedabad at the bank of River Sabarmati. This was one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This ashram is now a national monument established by the Government of India due to its significance for the Indian independence movement in the form of the Dandi March in 1930. The ashram was originally established at the Kocharab Bungalow of Jivanlal Desai on 25 May 1915. The Ashram was then shifted on 17 June 1917 to a piece of open land on the banks of the river Sabarmati
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of the Communist party he was a leader he is acknowledged by his achievements and his I Have a dream speech. He will always be known as Martin Luther King JR. P3: Mohandas mahatma Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869. He became a leader of India’s independence movement‚ organizing boycotts against British institutions in peaceful forms of civil disobedience. He was given the holy name Mahatmas and oversaw a diverse ashram. He was killed by a fanatic in 1948. He was against disobedience and didn’t want
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Swadeshi movement The Swadeshi movement‚ part of the Indian independence movement and the developing Indian nationalism‚ was an economic strategy aimed at removing the British Empire from power and improving economic conditions in India by following the principles of swadeshi (self-sufficiency; Hindi: स्वदेशी svadēśī)‚ which had some success. Strategies of the Swadeshi movement involved boycotting British products and the revival of domestic products and production processes. The Swadeshi Movement
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interests of the emerging Indian industrial capitalism. It was his prescription for fiscal autonomy‚ that ensured full protection to Indian industry. He was in the forefront of the campaign against the government’s currency policy. In the second round table conference‚ he worked hard against inclusion financial safeguards in what later became the Government of India Act of 1935. In the early thirties‚ G. D. went to England to influence those who were involved in making Indian policy. He kept Gandhiji
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SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN A GREAT MUSLIM REFORMER Following their crushing of the revolution of 1857‚ the British consolidated their secular rule in the Indian subcontinent‚ which marginalized‚ if not totally ignored‚ religion‚ particularly Islam. The whole of India suffered in the backlash‚ but the consequences were most devastating for the Muslims. It was at this critical juncture that Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) gallantly came forward to counter the threat‚ and to defend the Islamic faith and
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