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Discuss Marxist approach to the analysis of Indian nationalism.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The Marxist approach refuses to take a movement at its own word. Instead of asking what nationalism proclaimed, it asks which classes produced it, whose interests its programme served, and which demands it was obliged to suppress. Applied to India, that question yielded a body of work as influential for what it provoked as for…

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  • The class character of the Congress
  • Disagreements within the camp
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