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Gandhi restrained mass-movements yet he retained his popularity among the masses. How do you explain this paradox?

  • UPSC 1994
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

Mahatma Gandhi repeatedly pulled back mass movements at their peak — 1922, 1931, 1934 — decisions that dismayed his own colleagues, yet his hold over the popular imagination only deepened with time.

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  • Instances of Restraint and Their Logic
  • The Logic of Struggle-Truce-Struggle
  • Constructive Work as Continuous Mass Contact
  • The Personal Sources of Gandhi's Mystique
  • Conclusion

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