HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
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Build up separate administrative units for better efficiency of administration.
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Create division among the ranks of Indian nationalists.
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Appease the large majority of Muslims.
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Stop the tide of nationalism in Bengal.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The two real motives behind the partition of Bengal was: To curb the radical Bengali nationalists and to weaken the nationalist’s movements. To weaken Bengal, the nerve centre of Indian nationalism and divide the Muslims and Hindus based on religion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main objective of the partition of Bengal was to divide the Hindu Muslim unity and to influence and weaken the nationalist movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lord Curzon was appointed as the Viceroy of India in 1899. He was reappointed as the Viceroy of the country in 1904, after which in 1905 he presided over the partition of Bengal to suppress the rising tide of nationalism in India.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1911, Lord Hardinge scrapped the Partition of Bengal because there were riots and violence spread all around against the partition. People started the Swadeshi and Boycott movement after the division of Bengal. Hence, Lord Hardinge on the visit of King George V announced the reunification of Bengal.