<P> Surendranath was one of the most important public leaders who protested the partition of the Bengal province in 1905 . Banerjee was in the forefront of the movement and organized protests, petitions and extensive public support across Bengal and India, which finally compelled the British to reverse the bifurcation of Bengal in 1912 . Banerjee became the patron of rising Indian leaders like Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Sarojini Naidu . Banerjee was also one of the senior-most leaders of the moderate Congress--those who favoured accommodation and dialogue with the British--after the "extremists" - those who advocated revolution and political independence--led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak left the party in 1906 . Banerjee was an important figure in the Swadeshi movement - advocating goods manufactured in India against foreign products--and his popularity at its apex made him, in words of admirers, the uncrowned king of Bengal . </P> <P> The declining popularity of moderate Indian politicians affected Banerjee's role in Indian politics . Banerjee supported the Morley - Minto reforms 1909--which were resented and ridiculed as insufficient and meaningless by the vast majority of the Indian public and nationalist politicians . Banerjee was a critic of the proposed method of civil disobedience advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, the rising popular leader of Indian nationalists and the Congress Party . Accepting the portfolio of minister in the Bengal government earned him the ire of nationalists and much of the public, and he lost the election to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1923 to Bidhan Chandra Roy, the candidate of the Swarajya Party--ending his political career for all practical purposes . He was knighted for his political support of the British Empire . Banerjee made the Calcutta Municipal Corporation a more democratic body while serving as a minister in the Bengal government . </P> <P> He is remembered and widely respected today as a pioneer leader of Indian politics--first treading the path for Indian political empowerment . The British respected him and referred to him during his later years as Surrender Not Banerjee . But nationalist politics in India meant opposition, and increasingly there were others whose opposition was more vigorous and who came to center stage . Banerjee could accept neither the extremist view of political action nor the noncooperation of Gandhi, then emerging as a major factor in the nationalist movement . Banerjee saw the Montague - Chelmsford reforms of 1919 as substantially fulfilling Congress's demands, a position which further isolated him . He was elected to the reformed Legislative Council of Bengal in 1921, knighted in the same year, and held office as minister for local self - government from 1921 to 1924 . His defeat at the polls in 1923 brought his political career to a close and he went on to write the widely acclaimed A Nation in Making, published in 1925 . After Surendranath died at Barrackpore on 6 August 1925 . </P> <P> His name is commemorated in the names of the following institutions: Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, Raiganj Surendranath Mahavidyalaya, Surendranath College, Surendranath College for Women, Surendranath Evening College, Surendranath Law College (formerly Ripon College) and the Surendranath Centenary School in Ranchi . </P>

A nation in the making book written by
find me the text answering this question