History · Rise of Indian Nationalism
UGC NET June 2012 History
The first Swadeshi dacoity or robbery was organised in the year 1906 in
AManiktala
BRangpur ✓ Correct
CMuzaffarpur
DMidnapur
Correct answer: (B) Rangpur — The first Swadeshi dacoity was organised at Rangpur in 1906, so the answer is Rangpur.
Explanation
★The first Swadeshi dacoity was organised at Rangpur in 1906, so the answer is Rangpur.
★Such dacoities were robberies carried out by revolutionaries to raise funds for the movement.
★They grew out of the militant phase of the Swadeshi and Boycott agitation after the Partition of Bengal in 1905.
★Revolutionary groups used the money to buy arms and support their work.
★Maniktala in Calcutta later became famous as the site of a revolutionary bomb factory.
★Muzaffarpur was the place of the Khudiram Bose bomb action of 1908.
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