The Whirlwind

Tag: Partition of Bengal

  • Bonfire of Foreign goods at Fergusson College, Poona

    Bonfire of Foreign goods at Fergusson College, Poona

    In 1905, being in his early twenties, Vinayak Damodar (Veer) Savarkar emerged as a fiery student leader in Poona, galvanizing youth against British imperialism. A staunch proponent of Swadeshi, Savarkar saw the boycott of foreign goods as the moral counterpart to the political opposition to the Partition of Bengal by Viceroy Lord Curzon planned to…