1. Bengal was partitioned by Curzon in 1905.
2. Bengal was partitioned into two parts as East Bengal and West Bengal.
3. Curzon made a statement that the partition was purely on administrative grounds.
4. But the people of India thought that it was to break the unity of the people and to divide the Muslims from the Hindus.
5. The partition angered both the moderates and the extremists.
6. They called it as an introduction of the policy of ‘Divide and Rule’ and agitated against it.
7. Due to violent criticism and agitation, the partition was revoked in 1911.
8. It paved the way for the birth of the Swadeshi movement, an economic boycott.
