FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN MUMBAI KARNATAKA

Book excerpt: The Freedom Movement in North Karnataka was more intensified widespread and radical than in the other areas of Karnataka. The sudden emergence of the associations and organizations is one of the achievements of anti partition movement, which was turned as Swadeshi movement in India general and in Bengal particular. Most of such the Samitis or national volunteer movements were quite open bodies engaged in a variety of activities. Physical and moral training of members, social work during famines, epidemics, religious festivals, preaching the Swadeshi message through multifarious forms, organizing crafts, school arbitration courts and village societies, implementing the techniques of passive resistance to the foreign rule