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Write short note with a sociological perspective on A. R. Desai’s characterization of leadership of Indian freedom movement.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

For A. R. Desai, "who led the freedom movement?" is a question about class, not personality. Social Background of Indian Nationalism (1948) argues that leadership rested with the Indian bourgeoisie and the propertied classes, and that the Indian National Congress was never a neutral vessel but a coalition in which that leadership decided what the…

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