ICSE Class 10 Answered
In
the context of the Swadeshi and Boycott movement explain the following:
Government’s repressive measures
against the student community.
The legislative measures taken by the
colonial government.
The treatment meted out to the leaders
of the movement.
Asked by Topperlearning User | 09 Mar, 2015, 09:19: AM
Expert Answer
- The British government took severe measures in order to discourage wider participation of students in the Swadeshi and Boycott movement. Disciplinary action was taken against those students who participated, many of them were fined, expelled from schools and colleges, arrested and many a times beaten by lathis. Even the institutions whose students had participated were penalised; their grants-in-aid and other privileges were discontinued. Some of them were disaffiliated and their students were not permitted to compete for scholarships and were barred from all government services.
- The British government passed and used many Acts in order to suppress the movement. Acts like the Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, the Explosive Substances Act, the Criminal Law Amendment Act and the Newspapers (Incitement to Offences) Act, were used by the authorities in order to smother all forms of dissent.
- The leaders of the movement were harassed by the British government in every conceivable way. Tilak was tried for apparently ‘seditious writings’ in the newspaper ‘Kesari’ and in 1908, convicted and deported to Mandalay (Burma) to serve six years of imprisonment. Ajit Singh and Lala Lajpat Rai too were arrested and deported to Mandalay. Chidambaram Pillai and Harisavottam Rao were imprisoned.
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