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Underline the growth of various forms of Socialist ideologies in the Indian National Movement between World Wars I and II.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Other Strands in the National Movement

The interwar decades saw socialism enter Indian nationalist politics not as one uniform creed but as a family of genuinely distinct ideological strands, each with its own institutional base, theoretical lineage, and relationship to the Congress mainstream.

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  • Congress Socialism: Radicalism from Within the Party
  • Communism: The Comintern-Directed Strand
  • Bose's Statist Socialism and the Forward Bloc
  • M.N. Roy and Radical Humanism
  • Gandhian Sarvodaya: A Non-Marxist Socialistic Ideal

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