Gopalrao Deshmukh of Pune was the first to advocate in 1849 the consumption of indigenous goods instead of foreign goods. The first person to argue forcefully in favour of the boycott of everything foreign was Bholanath Chandra of Bengal, who in the Mookerjee’s Magazine — a well-known nationalist magazine — wrote an article entitled ‘A voice for the commerce and manufactures of India’ during the 1870s. The anti-Partition movement of 1905 that followed was one of the most creative periods in the history of modern India. This political movement gave a definite impetus to the economic movement for national regeneration. ‘Boycott of foreign goods’ was one of the main slogans of the time which spread like a prairie fire to all parts of Bengal and beyond. Krishna Kumar was opposed to the partition of Bengal (1905-1911) and used his journal to arouse public opinion against the partition. He openly advocated boycott of foreign goods and refused to accept advertisements for these goods in Sanjibani.
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Krishna Kumar Mitra was the first to suggest the boycott of British goods in Bengal.
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Gopalrao Deshmukh of Pune was the first to advocate in 1849 the consumption of indigenous goods instead of foreign goods. The first person to argue forcefully in favour of the boycott of everything foreign was Bholanath Chandra of Bengal, who in the Mookerjee’s Magazine — a well-known nationalist magazine — wrote an article entitled ‘A voice for the commerce and manufactures of India’ during the 1870s. The anti-Partition movement of 1905 that followed was one of the most creative periods in the history of modern India. This political movement gave a definite impetus to the economic movement for national regeneration. ‘Boycott of foreign goods’ was one of the main slogans of the time which spread like a prairie fire to all parts of Bengal and beyond. Krishna Kumar was opposed to the partition of Bengal (1905-1911) and used his journal to arouse public opinion against the partition. He openly advocated boycott of foreign goods and refused to accept advertisements for these goods in Sanjibani.