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How did the people of Bengal respond to the Partition of Bengal (1905)?
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Solution
- The partition of Bengal that took place in 1905, resulted in widespread protests all across India. It started a new phase of the Indian national movement.
- The partition instead of dividing the Bengali people along the religious line united the leaders of both the groups – extremist and moderate.
- The people of Bengal adopted new techniques of protest. The boycott of British goods was one such method.
- The day Bengal was officially partitioned was declared as a day of mourning. Thousand’s of people took bath in River Ganga and marched on the streets of Calcutta singing Vande Mataram.
- The people of Bengal were outraged at what they saw as a ‘divide and rule’ policy of the British government.
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