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UPSC 2017: At one of the places in India, if you stand on the seashore and watch the sea, you will find that the sea water recedes from the shore line a few kilometres and comes back to the shore, twice a day, and you can actually walk on the sea floor when the water recedes. This unique phenomenon is seen at
(a)Bhavnagar
(b)Bheemunipattnam
(c)Chandipur
(d)Nagapattinam
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At the outset of the Swadeshi movement (1905–08) nationalist leaders across regions championed the boycott of foreign goods: Bal Gangadhar Tilak led agitation in Maharashtra, Lala Lajpat Rai in Punjab, and abroad Shyamji Krishna Varma propagated Swadeshi through the Indian Home Rule Society and *The Indian Sociologist* in London. Thus all three figures were associated with the movement’s beginning. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak?utm_source=openai))
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