With reference to the Partition of Bengal 1905 consider the following statements 1 It was done when ...........

Modern Indian History 1905-1920

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With reference to the Partition of Bengal, 1905, consider the following statements:

1.It was done when Lord Dalhousie was the Governor General of British India.

2.The incident gave birth to the Swadeshi and Rithala movement.

3.New provinces of East Bengal and Assam were created after the partition of Bengal.

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Explanation:

The Partition of Bengal into two provinces was effected in July 1905.The new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam included the whole of Assam and the Dacca,Rajshahi and Chittagong divisions of Bengal with headquarters at Dacca.
Though Curzon justified his action on administrative lines, partition divided the Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. This led to the anti-partition agitation all over the country.This had also intensified the National Movement leading to the Swadeshi movement.

Rithala is a place in Delhi, the movement or the riotsin Rithala that happened between 1911-1932 cannot be related to the Swadeshi movement.
In 1874, Bengal had become too large unit to be administered as a single unit. The government wanted to solve the problem permanently.
It was thought that Assam should be extended and it should include some eastern districts of Bengal.Congress instead suggested that the Government should separate the Non-bengali speaking areas (Bihar or Orissa) rather than splitting the Bengali speaking area.
This was because the new Western Bengal made the Bengali people minority in their own country because now the population of Hindi and Oriya speaking people was 37 Million while the population of Bengali Speaking people was only 17 Million.