CLASS X SOCIAL SCIENCE (HISTORY) SOLUTIONS

HISTORY
CHAPTER: PARTITION OF BENGAL (1905 - 1911 AD) AND SWADESHI MOVEMENT

Q: What were the anti-movement measures taken by the British to dominate Swadeshi Movement?

Answer: The anti-movement measures taken by the British to dominate Swadeshi Movement were:

a. The administration offered different titles, posts, awards and so forth to moderate leaders of the Indian National Congress with the expectation that they would bolster the government in its different acts. The moderate Congress leaders were likewise offered posts of judges of High Court, membership of British Parliament, enrollment in Viceroy's Council, and so forth. The Congress chiefs, for example, Surendranath Banerjee, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bipin Chandra Paul, anyway stood firm and rejected all the concessions offered by the administration.

b. The British attempted to satisfy Muslim leaders to woo them far from the Indian National Congress. They urged them to begin a political group of Muslims to restrict the moves of the Indian National Congress. They succeeded in this dare to an incredible degree.

Q: Write a short note on Margaret Elizabeth Noble.

Answer: Margaret Elizabeth Noble, also called Sister Nivedita, was born in Ireland. Her father, Samuel Richard Noble, was a clergyman in some poor ward in Ireland. 
Margaret got the soul of self­less service. She met Swami Vivekananda in Britain, and was colossally influ­enced by his goals and addresses. She came to India in 1898, and remained in a place of the Ramakrishan Mission at Baghbazar, Calcutta. From that point forward, she came to be known as 'Sister Nivedita'. Nivedita began a girls' school in the region, and started to teach girls who were in those days not permitted to study in a school. Sister Nivedita used to go personally to the guardians, and requested them to enable their girls to go to the school. She dedicated herself in numerous other social works and turned out to be firmly associated with Indian patriotism, as she loved India. At the point when Aurobindo Ghosh left for Pondichery, being pursued by the British Intelligence Agency, Sister Nivedita assumed control over the charge of editing his popular journal, Karma Yogin, in his nonattendance. Sister Nivedita cherished India as her homeland, and the Indians as her brothers and sisters. She died in Calcutta at the age of forty-four.

Q: Mention three contributions of Swadeshi movement.
Answer: Three noteworthy contributions of Swadeshi movement are: 

(a) Gave awareness about mass movement: A significant contribution of the Swadeshi movement was that Indians turned out to be politically mindful of the intensity of mass movement. They understood that if the general people turned out together in the majority for a common cause, the mass struggle would, in the end, bring achievement. 

(b) Pulled in women towards mass movement: Swadeshi movement enabled the Indian ladies towards the mass movement. Every individual in the Bengal province kept a fast on the day when Prafulla Chaki was executed, In addition, Bhubaneswari Devi called a thousand women for a mass movement to challenge police torment on her son, Bhupendra Nath Dutta. 

(c) Aroused demand for Swaraj: The Swadeshi movement stirred the passion for 'Swaraj'. It was during this movement that Indians for the first time demanded Swaraj from the British. This demand was raised during the Congress session at Calcutta in 1906 under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji.