Indian Independence Movement

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Correct Answer : Option a

Explanation
Option (a) is correct: The Vande Mataram movement was started on February 11, 1907, in Andhra Pradesh following the announcement of the Bengal Partition of 1905. The Swadeshi movement was also known as Vandemataram movement in deltaic Andhra Pradesh.

During 1901, Bengal had become the nerve centre for Indian nationalism. At that time it was the biggest province of British India and included parts of Bihar and Orissa. To weaken it, Lord Curzon (1899–1905) the Viceroy of India, proposed partition of Bengal. The official reason was stated as administrative inconvenience due to the size of Bengal. But partition itself was based on a religious and political agenda. Bengal was to be divided into two regions i.e. East Bengal and Assam out of the rest of Bengal. Thus to reduce the nationalist movement in Bengal and thereby in the entire country. But the Indian nationalists saw the design behind partition and condemned it unanimously, starting the anti-partition and the Swadeshi movements.