In British India between 1906 and 1918, Lal Bal Pal (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal) was a trio of outspoken nationalists. During the anti-Partition agitation in Bengal, which started in 1905, they promoted the Swadeshi movement, which calls for a boycott of all imported commodities and the usage of products created in India.

The Swadeshi movement featured a notable exchange between Lala Lajpat Rai.

Some Indian intellectuals developed a sensibility in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. With the Swadeshi movement, this viewpoint—often translated as "self reliance" or "self sufficiency"—exploded onto the national all-Indian scene in 1905.

Indians from all over the nation were organised by Lal Bal Pal to oppose the Bengal division, and the protests, strikes, and boycotts of British products that started in Bengal quickly spread to other areas as part of a larger movement against the Raj.

With the incarceration of Bal Gangadhar Tilak as well as the retirement of Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh from active politics, the nationalist movement began to progressively wane. Lala Lajpat Rai passed away on November 17, 1928, as a result of the wounds he received when police superintendent James A. Scott ordered the officers under his supervision to use a lathi (baton) to charge a throng Rai was a part of.