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The trade union movement joined forces with the mainstream of nationalist politics to strengthen each other in their struggle against colonial rule. – Comment.

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  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The Indian working class, born of railway construction and the cotton and jute industries from the mid-nineteenth century, found its political voice increasingly entwined with the nationalist movement, even as this alliance remained uneven and often strategically constrained on both sides.

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