<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . (September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . (September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Swadeshi movement, part of the Indian independence movement and the developing Indian nationalism, was an economic strategy aimed at removing the British Empire from power and improving economic conditions in India by following the principles of swadeshi and which had some success . Strategies of the Swadeshi movement involved boycotting British products and the revival of domestic products and production processes . L.M. Bhole identifies five phases of the Swadeshi movement . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1850 to 1904: developed by leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji, Gokhale, Ranade, Tilak, G.V. Joshi . </Li> <Li> 1905 to 1917: Began with and because of the partition of Bengal in 1905 by Lord Curzon . </Li> <Li> 1918 to 1947: Swadeshi thought shaped by Mahatma Gandhi, accompanied by the rise of Indian industrialists . </Li> <Li> 1948 to 1991: Widespread curbs on international and inter-state trade . India became a bastion of obsolete technology during the licence - permit raj . </Li> <Li> 1991 onwards: liberalization and globalization . Foreign capital, foreign technology, and many foreign goods are not excluded and doctrine of export - led growth resulted in modern industrialism . </Li> </Ul>

The most important event that characterised the swadeshi movement