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Account for the rise and growth of Leftwing within the Congress. Did Jawaharlal Nehru believe in a socialistic approach to Indian and world problems and if so why?

  • UPSC 1986
  • Other Strands in the National Movement

The Indian National Congress, born as a platform of constitutional moderates, had by the 1920s begun generating a vigorous left-wing current that pulled it toward questions of class and economic justice.

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  • General Causes of the Rise of the Left within Congress
  • Nehru's Socialistic Approach — Formation and Content
  • Interaction between the General Left and Nehru's Personal Vision

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