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Account for the rise and growth of leftism in the Congress movement. What impact did it have on contemporary Indian politics?

  • UPSC 1997
  • Other Strands in the National Movement

Leftism within Congress grew from a marginal intellectual current in the 1920s into a force that visibly reshaped the party's programme and politics by the late 1930s.

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  • Impact on Congress's Formal Programme
  • Impact on Governance: The Congress Ministries (1937–39)
  • Impact on Internal Congress Politics: Tensions and the 1939 Crisis

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