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To what extent was the emergence of the Congress in 1885 the culmination of a process of political awakening that had its beginning in the 1870s?

  • UPSC 2000
  • Early Indian Nationalism

The Indian National Congress of 1885 was not a sudden creation but the organisational crystallisation of a political awakening whose decisive acceleration began in the 1870s, even though its roots reach back further still.

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  • Before 1870: The Narrow Foundations
  • The 1870s: A Qualitative Shift Toward Mass Political Work
  • Repression as Radicalisation: The Lytton Years (1876–1880)
  • Regional Consolidation on the Eve of 1885
  • Hume, the Safety-Valve Theory, and the Question of Agency

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