●  Swadeshi and Boycott started against Partition of Bengal in 1905.

●  The British Government’s decision to partition Bengal had been made public in December 1903

●  The Swadeshi and Boycott Movement was an effort by Indian people to oppose British rule.

●  It began when British officials separated the Bengal province dividing it by Bengali Hindi and Oriya languages and Muslim and Hindu religions.

●   Indians responded by boycotting British products and using only Indian-made goods.

●  Bande Mataram became the boycott and Swadeshi movement theme song.

●  Among the movement's various forms of struggle, it was the boycott of foreign-made goods that encountered the greatest visible success on the practical and popular level. Boycott and public burning of foreign clothes, picketing of shops selling foreign goods, all became common in remote corners of Bengal as well as in many major cities and towns across the country.