The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908

The Swadeshi Movement In Bengal-1903-1908 Is A Study In Depth Of The Five Crowded Years From The Announcement Of The Partition Plan To The Alipore Bomb Case. The Author Has Chosen As His Main Theme The Effects Of The Nationalist Intelligentsia During These Years To Break Out Of Elitist Confines Through The Development Of New Techniques Of Struggle And Mass Communication And The Ultimate Failure Of Such Attempts, Which, Along With Intensified Repression, Led To The Heroic Blind Alley Of Revolutionary Terrorism. The Shifts Within Nationalism In Political Objectives, Methods And Social And Cultural Ideals Are Analysed And Sought To Be Explained In Terms Of A Novel Classification Of Trends Within The Swadeshi Movement.