Question

What led to the split between the extremists and the moderates in the year 1907?

Answer 1

The Swadeshi movement was launched in protest of the Government’s decision to partition Bengal had been made public in July 1905. The extremists wanted to extend the Swadeshi and Boycott movements from Bengal to the rest of the country whereas the moderates wanted to confine the movement in Bengal. Later, there was a tussle between the two groups for the presidentship of the National Congress for that year (1906). These events inflamed the differences between the approaches of the two groups. The split between the two came at the Surat Session of the National Congress in December 1907.