Bande Mataram newspaper
Topic: Print Culture and the Modern World · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Bande Mataram was an English daily newspaper started in Calcutta in 1906, during the Swadeshi movement. Bipin Chandra Pal started it, and Aurobindo Ghose soon became its leading editor and writer. It spoke for the Extremists (radical nationalists). It demanded complete independence and preached passive resistance, meaning boycott and non-cooperation instead of petitions.
Example
In 1907, Aurobindo wrote a famous series of articles in Bande Mataram on passive resistance. The government brought sedition cases against the paper, and it closed in 1908.
Don't confuse with
- Vande Mataram (song): Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's hymn from the novel Anandamath. The newspaper only took its name from the song.
Related concepts
- Censorship of Press Act 1799
- Licensing Regulations 1823
- Press Act of 1835
- Licensing Act 1857
- Hindu Patriot
- Som Prakash
- Press and Registration of Books Act 1867
- Amrita Bazar Patrika
- Vernacular Press Act
- The Hindu