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Competencies
C-2.3

• Critical thinking
• Information literacy
21st CENTURY SKILLS
6 India Wins

Freedom

Warm Up

Match the persons with their slogans/quotes.

Person Slogan

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak (a) Do or die.

2. Mahatma Gandhi (b) Jai Hind.

3. Subhash Chandra Bose (c) Swarajya is my birthright and
I shall have it.

The early leaders of Congress were Moderates, who were not very successful.

They actually requested the British government for reforms. Some people
like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal and many

others wanted to oppose the British rulers strongly. They wanted strikes
and boycotts. They were called the Radicals.

The Radicals wanted that every Indian must sacrifice in the struggle for
freedom. Tilak once declared, “Swarajya is my birthright and I shall have

it”. He educated Indians about their rights. The British rulers arrested
the leaders several times. This gave more

strength to the Congress leaders and Indians.

The British rulers in India decided to

partition Bengal in 1905. People strongly
opposed the partition of Bengal. The aim

of the rulers was to break the unity of the
society. The Congress launched the Swadeshi
Radicals

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