UPSC Mains 2020Question 13General Studies 1Indian History250 words
Since the decade of the 1920s, the national movement acquired various ideological strands and thereby expanded its social base. Discuss. (Answer in 250 words)
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Class 8The Making of the National Movement: 1870s–1947— NCERT History, Chapter 8. From the 1870s Indians asked what India was and whom it was for, and answered: all its people. Political associations led by English-educated professionals — the Poona…
Class 10Nationalism in India— NCERT History, Chapter 2. In India, as in many colonies, modern nationalism grew out of the struggle against colonialism: a shared sense of oppression bound different groups together, though…
Class 12Social Movements— NCERT Sociology, Chapter 8. Many rights we take for granted — the eight-hour day, equal pay, the vote — were won by social movements. A social movement is sustained, organised collective action…
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