Question : Account for the emergence of the left-wing within the Congress. How far did it influence the programme and policy of the Congress?
(2006)
Answer : A powerful left-wing group developed in India in the late 1920s and 1930s contributing to the radicalization of the national movement. The goal of political independence acquired a clearer and shouter social and economic content. The stream of national struggle for independence and those of the oppressed came together. The left wing within the Congress came to be symbolized by Jawahar Lal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose.
The left wing in the Congress owed its emergence ....
Question : Examine the cause of the rise and progress of revolutionary movements in India from 1905 to 1931.
(2003)
Answer : Along with the open political movements, there arose in the first decade of the 20th century various revolutionary groups in the different parts of the country. These early revolutionaries, active mainly in Bengal, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Punjab had no faith in constitutional agitations. They believed that by terrorizing British officials, they would be able to demoralize the entire machinery of the government and bring about freedom. After the government suppressed almost all open political ....
Question : Discuss the nature of the leadership and programme of the Congress Socialist Party.
(2002)
Answer : In 1934, after the suspension of the Civil Disobedience Movement, some socialist wanted to form a socialist party within the congress organisation so as to prevent the erosion of the revolutionary character of the Congress. The socialists within the congress believed in Marxist ideas like the communists but they owed their alleginance to the Indian National Congress and were nationalists. The Congress Socialists joined hands with the bourgeois democratic within the congress for carrying on ....
Question : “The ideology of Subhash Chandra Bose was a combination of nationalism, fascism and communism.”
(2002)
Answer : In the closing stage of the Civil Disobedience movement, Subhash horrered around the working class movement. He inspired the students and the under-privileged, towards a radical militant temper. This eventually facilitated the formation of the Congress Socialist Party within the framework of the congress organisation. Subhash confined himself progressively, to the discussions on the coducting of India’s struggle for freedom, looking for new styles and strategies to intensify it and getting impatient for a show ....
Question : Account for the rise and growth of leftism in the Congress movement. What impact did it have on contemporary Indian politics?
(1997)
Answer : The 1930s witnessed the rapid growth of socialist ideas within and outside the Congress. In 1929 there was a great economic slump or depression in the United States which gradually spread to the rest of the world. Everywhere in the capitalist countries there was a sleep decline in production and foreign trade, resulting in economic distress and large scale unemployment. At one time, the number of unemployed was 3 million in Britain, 6 million in ....
