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“A powerful left-wing group developed in India in the late 1920s and 1930s, contributing to the radicalization of national movement.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Other Strands in the National Movement

By the late 1920s, disillusionment with both Moderate constitutionalism and the abrupt suspension of mass movements had produced a genuinely organised Left presence in Indian politics for the first time — distinct from the earlier individual socialist sympathies of Congress leaders.

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  • The Communist Party: From Conspiracy Trials to the United Front
  • The Congress Socialist Party: Radicalism from Within
  • Kisan Sabhas, Trade Unions, and the Mass Base
  • Bose, Nehru, and the Presidencies of 1938-39
  • The Limits of "Power"

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