Tell about Swadeshi Movement ?

Student participants in public meetings, processions, which were banned, were expelled from Government schools and colleges. Severe controls were imposed on the press. Police force was used to break up public gatherings and meetings.

The Congress split in 1907 at the Surat session which further weakened the swadeshi movement.

The government swiftly moved against the leaders of the movement, including Ashwini Kumar Dutt, Krishna Kumar Mitra, Lokmanya Tilak, Ajit Singh, Lajpat Rai, Chidambaram Pillai, and rendered it leaderless. Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh retired from politics.

The Swadeshi and boycott movements lacked an effective organization and party structure.

Although it had thrown up almost the entire gamut of Gandhian techniques from passive resistance to constructive work,

It was however unable to convert these techniques from theory into practice by mobilising the masses along political lines as Mahatma Gandhi did much later on.

However, it should be remembered that no mass movement can sustain at the same tempo for an endless time without pausing,

Eespecially, when faced with severe repression, and this is true of the swadeshi and boycott movements as well.