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Subjects in UPSC Civil Services
Q.321
Hard
Indian History & Polity
The Seditious Meetings Ordinance of 1907 and subsequent Seditious Meetings Act were primarily used to suppress which regional nationalist movement?
Correct Answer:
B. Swadeshi Movement in Bengal
EXPLANATION
The Seditious Meetings Ordinance of 1907 was enacted specifically to counter the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, which promoted indigenous industries and boycotted British goods following the Partition of Bengal in 1905.
This legislation severely restricted public gatherings and speeches, targeting nationalist leaders like Aurobindo Ghosh and others.
The act demonstrated the British government's fear of the organized nationalist sentiment emerging in Bengal.