HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Question
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The famines of 1896-97 and 1899-1900
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The partition of Bengal
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The Surat Split
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The Jallianwala Bagh episode
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Detailed explanation-1: -The famous incident of 1905 under Lord Curzon who was the then viceroy of India brought Aurobindo Ghose into the fold of the Indian National Movement. Complete answer: Lord Curzon was the viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
Detailed explanation-2: -He took part in the 1906 session of the Indian National Congress and was a member of the team which set four objectives for the freedom movement which were Swadeshi, Swaraj, education and boycott.
Detailed explanation-3: -Aurobindo was the earliest Indian to create a major literary corpus in English. His works include philosophy; poetry; translations of and commentaries on the Vedas, Upanishads, and the Gita; plays; literary, social, political, and historical criticism; devotional works; spiritual journals and 3 volumes of letters.
Detailed explanation-4: -He propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth and founded an ashram in Puducherry. His epic poem Savitri is one of the greatest works of him. His participation in the Indian freedom struggle against the British gave him popularity and gradually evolved to become a spiritual and yogic guru.