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Trace the factors which led to a split in the INC in 1907. What was its impact on the course of the nationalist movement?

  • UPSC 2003
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The Indian National Congress, barely two decades old, tore itself apart at its Surat session of December 1907 — a rupture between Moderates and Extremists that had been building since the Swadeshi Movement erupted in Bengal two years earlier.

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  • Background: The Widening Moderate-Extremist Divide
  • The Swadeshi Movement as Catalyst
  • The Immediate Triggers at Surat
  • Impact on the Nationalist Movement
  • Immediate Organisational Damage
  • Government Repression
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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