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Do you agree with the fact that the virtual failure of the Non-Cooperation Movement and the gloom that descended on the nationalist scene, created conditions for revolutionary activities? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The abrupt suspension of Non-Cooperation after Chauri Chaura (February 1922) left a large body of politicised, mobilised youth without a movement to belong to — a vacuum that revolutionary terrorism's "third phase" (1920s-30s) filled, though it did not emerge solely from this disillusionment.

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  • The Case for the Proposition: Disillusionment as Cause
  • The Institutional Expression: HRA/HSRA and Bengal's Revolutionary Groups
  • The Counter-View: Continuity, Not Simple Sequence
  • Assessing the Proposition

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