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Can methods and policies of the moderates be referred to as ‘political mendicancy’?

  • UPSC 2018
  • Early Indian Nationalism

The charge of "political mendicancy" — first levelled by the Extremists against the Moderates — captures a real feature of early Congress method, namely its reliance on petitions, prayers, and protest rather than confrontation, but the label is also a partisan caricature that understates the substantive intellectual and institutional work the Moderates actually accomplished.

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  • The Case For: Methods That Invited the Charge
  • The Extremist Critique in Its Own Terms
  • The Case Against: What the Moderates Actually Achieved
  • Weighing the Charge

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