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“India after 1905 had new interests and objectives and compelled new lines of policy.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Early Indian Nationalism

The year 1905 — the year of Curzon's partition of Bengal — marks the hinge on which Indian politics turned from petition-based Moderate constitutionalism toward mass-based militant nationalism, forcing both nationalists and the colonial state onto genuinely new terrain.

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  • The New Objective: From Petition to Swaraj
  • New Methods: Swadeshi, Boycott, and Passive Resistance
  • Revolutionary Extremism as an Even Newer Departure
  • Compelled New Lines of Colonial Policy
  • From Extremism to Home Rule: Carrying the New Politics Forward

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