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Sunday, 3 July 2011

Uttar Pradesh PCS 2011 Question number 23 (Paper 2)

Who among the following had led the Swadeshi Movement in Delhi?
(a) Balgangadhar Tilak
(b) Ajit Singh
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Syed Haider Raza
Answer-d



Swadeshi and Boycott movement 
Mass meetings were held all over Bengal where Swadeshi or the use of Indian goods and the boycott of British goods were proclaimed and pledged. In many places public burning of foreign cloth were organized and shops selling foreign cloth were picketed.
Soon the movement spread to other parts of the country- inPoona and Bombay under Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh,
 in Delhi, under Syed Haider Raza and
in Madras under Chidambaram Pillai.

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