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Analyze the nature of peasant movements during the nationalist phase and bring out their shortcomings.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Indian Response to British Rule

Twentieth-century peasant movements were distinctive because, unlike their nineteenth-century predecessors, they grew up entangled with — and in turn shaped — the organised national struggle for freedom.

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  • Not Radical in Aim
  • Organisational Growth: From UP to an All-India Body
  • Demands and Forms of Struggle
  • Nationalist Ideology and an Uneasy Congress Relationship
  • Shortcomings

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