Role of Women in Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911) in India

ABSTRACT

The title of this is paper “Role of Women in Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911) in India” in which we have to explore about the Swadeshi Movement. On the one side, The Swadeshi Movement, now known as “Make in India” campaign was officially proclaimed on August 7, 1905 at the Calcutta Town Hall, in Bengal. On the other side, Boycott movement was also launched along with the Swadeshi movement. The movements included using goods produced in India and burning British-made goods. The swadeshi movement started with the partition of Bengal by the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, 1905 and continued up to 1911. It was the most successful of the pre-Gandhian movements. Its chief architects were Aurobindo Ghosh, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai, Swadeshi, as a strategy, was a key focus of Mahatma Gandhi, who described it as the soul of swaraj (self rule). Though Gandhi was aware of the fact that the swadeshi movement was to hate the foreign goods, however, he was very much concerned with the development of the production of goods in the village and by the villagers would help greatly in upliftment of the masses. In order to make swadeshi more influential, he wanted that there should be weaving of Charaka as a starting point.

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