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“Many of us who worked for the Congress programme lived in a kind of intoxication during the year 1921. We were full of excitement and optimism… We had a sense of freedom and a pride in that freedom.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

This reflection, evocative of Jawaharlal Nehru's own recollections, captures the psychological transformation the Non-Cooperation Movement produced in 1921 — a movement whose real achievement was emotional and political, not merely organisational.

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