The British Raj by Mass Kelly

Author:Mass, Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

The new tide of country belief born in Bengal rose to flood India in each direction, and "Bande Mataram" (" Hail to Thee Mom") ended up being the Congress's country anthem, its words drawn from Anandamath, a well-known Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, and its music made up by Bengal's biggest poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-- 1941). As a response against the partition, Bengali Hindus launched a reliable boycott of British-made products and dramatized their willpower to live without foreign fabric by firing up enormous bonfires of Lancashire-made fabrics. Such bonfires, re-creating old Vedic sacrificial altars, excited Hindus in Poona, Madras, and Bombay to light comparable political pyres of demonstration. Rather than wearing foreign-made fabric, Indians pledged to use only domestic (swadeshi) cottons and other clothes made in India. Easy hand-spun and hand-woven saris ended up being haute couture, initially in Calcutta and somewhere else in Bengal and after that all across India, and displaced the finest Lancashire garments, which were now considered as despiteful imports. The swadeshi movement quickly stimulated native business in many fields, from Indian cotton mills to match factories, glassblowing stores, and iron and steel foundries.

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