Person1859 – 1925
Lord Curzon
Also called: George Nathaniel Curzon
British statesman who, as Viceroy of India (1899–1905), ordered the partition of Bengal in 1905
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When Britain split Bengal, heartland of Indian nationalism, into Hindu- and Muslim-majority halves, the Indian National Congress answered with four resolutions: boycott, swadeshi, swaraj and national education.
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- Bal Gangadhar Tilak1856 – 1920
Radical leader of the Indian National Congress who declared "Swaraj is my birthright" and led the movement against the partition of Bengal
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- Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914
From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance