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Review the background of the Chartist Movement. Despite its failure how had their demands been met in the succeeding years?

  • UPSC 2004
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Chartism (1838–48) was Britain's first organised working-class political movement, built around a single document — the People's Charter — yet it drew its energy from a much older tangle of political betrayal and economic distress, and though it never won a single point of its Charter in its own lifetime, its programme was substantially legislated…

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  • Political Roots: The Betrayal of 1832
  • Economic and Social Roots
  • The Six Points and the Course of the Movement
  • How the Demands Were Met in the Succeeding Decades

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