Revolutionary, left, peasant and labour movements
Communists, Congress Socialists and the Congress Left
Practise 3 PYQsConcepts to cover
- M.N. Roy at Tashkent 1920, Kanpur conference 1925, Peshawar and Kanpur Bolshevik conspiracy cases, Meerut conspiracy case 1929-33, Workers' and Peasants' Parties, CPI banned 1934, P.C. Joshi general secretary 1935-47
- CSP founded 1934 at Patna and Bombay by Jayaprakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Dev, Minoo Masani, Achyut Patwardhan, Ram Manohar Lohia: democratic socialism within the Congress, planning, land to the tiller
- Nehru's socialism, Bose's radicalism, Left strength at Lucknow, Faizpur and Haripura, and the Left's disunity in the Tripuri crisis
- M.N. Roy's return, League of Radical Congressmen and the Radical Democratic Party 1940, support for the war