Nationalist Movement (1858-1905)

The movement which began after 1858 was Nationalistic in character. This was because it saw pan-India participation and united people from different walks of life who sank their mutual differences to unite for common cause-INDIA.

Foundation of Movement

• Wider Participation: The movement rested on increasing atrocities of British rule which became major cause for India’s economic backwardness. It united almost all sections of society.
  • Peasants were tired of paying large sum of revenues and discovered that its interests were suffering at hands of foreign rulers.
  • Artisans saw that foreign regime has helped foreign competition to ruin them and had done nothing to ....