Which event provided the immediate impetus for the rise of Extremism in Indian politics?
Partition of Bengal
Lord Curzon's Partition of Bengal, announced on 16 October 1905, divided Bengal along communal lines and was widely seen as a British attempt to weaken the nationalist movement in India's most politically active province.
The resulting Swadeshi and Boycott movements gave the extremist leaders – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and Aurobindo Ghosh – a mass platform, and by the Surat Split (1907) the Extremists had established themselves as a distinct force within the Congress.
The Ilbert Bill controversy (1883) predated the Extremist phase; the Morley–Minto Reforms (1909) were a response to Extremism, not a cause; and the First World War (1914) came almost a decade later.
Hence, the answer is the Partition of Bengal.
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