PYQ Vault · Paper 1 · Indian National Movement
National movement in India was anti-imperialist and increasingly radical in its socio-economic and political programmes. Discuss.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
FLOW SNAPSHOT — how the answer moves R1 anti-imperialist from the start → British rule seen as exploitative and alien R2 constant core, deepening trajectory → political demand and socio-
Body flow
economic content both hardened over time
Counter-view
Moderate drain critique (Naoroji) → Extremist rejection of colonial legitimacy + Swaraj (Tilak) — Swadeshi as mass economic anti- imperialism → Gandhian mass struggle (Non-Cooperation / Civil Disobedience / Quit India) → Lahore 1929 / Purna Swargj (political radicalisation) → Russian Revolution → socialist turn (Nehru, Bose, Congress Socialist Party) → HSRA anti-capitalist / anti-feudal → Karachi Resolution 1931 (rights + economic programme) → Kisan Sabhas / trade unions (class enters nationalism)
Conclusion routes
radical in ideals, cautious in strategy → Congress hesitant before landlordism → class adjustment over class war Rr) anti-imperialism the constant; radicalism the trajectory, in both goal and programme R2 revolutionary in social ambition → fuller social transformation deferred to the Constitution
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
