Theme T16 · Modern India & Freedom Struggle

Widening of the national movement: ideological strands & global influences

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What UPSC asks

Questions ask how the national movement widened its social base through new ideological strands in the 1920s (socialism, communism, peasant and worker movements), the new goals added (economic and social freedom), and world developments that motivated anti-colonial struggle.

Prepare these

• Left wing: Nehru, Bose, CSP, communists, trade unions, Kisan Sabha
• Purna Swaraj and the economic programme (Karachi resolution)
• Global influences: Russian Revolution, World Wars, Irish and other anti-colonial movements

Answer writing

• Link each strand to the social group it brought in

Directive words in these PYQs: Discuss (1), Highlight (1).

Linked themes

Builds on: study these first

These come earlier in the roadmap. Questions in this theme use them.

Syllabus lines covered

• GS1-L3 — The Freedom Struggle - its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.

All 3 PYQs, newest first

1. GS12020GS1-HIS-06-M2020-S01

   Since the decade of the 1920s, the national movement acquired various ideological strands and thereby expanded its social base. Discuss.

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2. GS12017GS1-HIS-06-M2017-S01

   Highlight the importance of new objective that got added to the vision of Indian independence since the twenties of the last century.

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3. GS12014GS1-HIS-06-M2014-S01

   What were the major political, economic and social developments in the world which motivated the anti- colonial struggle in India?

   Also needs: T24 World Wars, interwar crisis, Great Depression & ideologiesAlso needs: T25 Colonisation & decolonisation: Africa, Malaya, SuezCopyReport a typo