This call for noncooperation of the low caste Bengal peasants continued for about a month. All these were happening due toĬaste prejudices and social hatred. Pure drinking water in the untouchable localities. To deliver letters and, the sanitation people were not sanctioning the tube-wells for At that time, even the postmen did not visit the untouchable villages In the jails, these people were forced to do In any village the policemen were found to be putting the untouchables behind theīars without proper proof or investigation. Whenever any incident of theft or dacoity happened anywhere It may be noted that the bottom layer of the Government establishmentĬomprised of none other than the upper caste Hindus who were serving in the different It was clearly against the GovernmentĮstablishment. TheĬall was given by t! le Namasudras of a large part of rural East BengaP, especially of theĭistricts of Faridpur, Khulna and Barishal. At that time, the practice of launching a protestĪgainst the Establishment through the 'Call for General Strike' was not common. In the second half of the nineteenth century, in the year 1872-73, there The second incident that I shall refer to is an incident that was anti-establishment Perhaps, they had greater faith in the British than they had in the Swadeshiwalas so farĪs their own community's development was concerned. To us that the untouchables during that period had been on the side of the Establishment. On scrutinising this statement of a renowned Dalit poet it becomes conspicuous 1, 2012, pages 131-137Ĭorresponding Author Email : Manohar Mouli Biswas Why shall we take part against our ntling Lord.2 Poor penniless while we're into a working hard. No ally can, singing the tune on an uneven, fuss. UnihJ can be had wlzile equality is amongst us. What Guruchan d said may be quoted from Mahananda Halder's poetic verse: In a reply to the letter of Surendra Nath Banerjee Through the different missionary activities. Trying for long to improve the condition of the untouchables. It's unwise for us to go against the British Government who are, and have been honestly Shri Guruchand Thakur declined to extend the same. While Ambika Charan Majumdar, aĬlose associate of Surendranath Banerjee and the Faridpur District Congress PresidentĪpproached Dalit leaders for their support for the Swadeshi movement, their leader Shri Uplift and hence stayed away from the mainstream. They were unquestioningly in search of their material gains for social Passionate- to keep the Bengal Nation undivided. Samity and revolutionaries such as Kshudiram Bose and others from the field of militantĪctivism took part in the then all-out Swadeshi movement. Politicians such as Surendra Nath BanerjeeĪnd others of the Indian National Congress, poets such as Rabindra Nath Tagore from theįield of art, literature and aesthetics, spiritualists such as Aurovindo Ghosh of Anushilan Were heard from every comer of the province.
Given birth to a vigorous Swadeshi movement in the then province of Bengal. Within its boundary) in 1905 into two parts for administrative reasons. (the then Bengal was a very big state including Assam, Orissa and some portions of Bihar It's a well-known fact of history that the British rulers in India had divided Bengal The first one depicts their pro-establishment position and the second one is of the antiestablishment nature. By way of reference, I shaiJ mention two incidences from history. Of their own community, they have sometimes been pro-establishment and sometimesĪnti-establishment.
Dalits in Bengal are found to be resistive in nature.
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