Why did the nationalist leaders feel the need for organizing anti- Circular society?

a. Anti-Circular Society:

The new spirit of nationalism that had been aroused among the people of our country found its expression in the formation of the national education system.

When the idea of boycott assumed a wider meaning it also included the boycott of foreign education and the course of study prescribed by the British.

Besides, the governmental regression on the students who had participated in the anti-Partition movement also encouraged the prominent leaders of Bengal to introduce a national system of education.

It is known to all that the student community of Bengal had taken an active part in the anti-Partition movement. The British government with a view to keeping them away from politics took up various measures.

Circulars were issued forbidding the students to associate themselves with any political movement. Even the slogan of Bande Mataram was declared to be a punishable offence.

It may be rioted here that the Carlyle Circular (1905) threatened punitive measures to those institutions which failed to present student participation in politics.

But all these could not dissuade the students from participating in the movement. In order to encourage the student participation in the political movement one Sachindra Prasad Basu organised the ‘Anti-Circular Society’ (1905).

b. Carlyle Circular:

In the anti-Partition agitation the students played a leading role.

The British government in retaliation took repressive measures against the student demonstrators and picketers such a repressive measure was the Carlyle Circular that threatened withdrawal of grants and scholarships including disaffiliation of such institutions which failed to prevent students’ participation in politics.

c. The Dawn Society:

Dawn Society was established by Satish- Chandra Mukherjee in 1902.