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title: "What was the Swadeshi Movement?"  
description: "What was the Swadeshi Movement?"  
author: "Mithila Roy"  
published: 2026-11-10  
updated: 2026-11-11  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/119915/what-was-the-swadeshi-movement  
category: "History"  
tags: ["Swadeshi Movement", "boycott of British goods", "Partition of Bengal", "national education"]  
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# What was the Swadeshi Movement?



## Answers

### Answer by Steave Reigs

The Swadeshi Movement began in 1905 as a protest against Lord Curzon’s partition of Bengal. “Swadeshi” means “of one’s own country”.

People boycotted British goods, especially cloth, and promoted Indian-made products. Bonfires of foreign cloth were held, and Indian industries, banks and shops were set up. National schools and colleges were started as alternatives to British-run institutions. Rabindranath Tagore wrote “Amar Shonar Bangla” during this period, and Rakhi Bandhan was celebrated as a symbol of unity.

The movement spread beyond Bengal, giving the freedom struggle a mass base for the first time. The idea of swadeshi later became central to Gandhi’s campaigns.


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