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PERSPECTIVE OF INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE (MARXIST PRESPECTIVE: (KARL MARX…
PERSPECTIVE OF INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE
CONTEXT OF DEBATE:
IMPERIALIST HISTORIANS LIKE LORD CURZON, DUFFRIN ALWAYS CONTEST INDIA AS A NATION RATHER INDIA AS A GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION
ON THIS LINE CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS LIKE PERCIVAL SPEAR, LOUIS NAMSER ETC.
SUGGEST THAT POLITICAL HAPPENINGS IN SUBCONTINENT B/W 1857 TO 1947 CAN'T BE TERMED AS NATIONAL MOVEMENT
BECOZ FOR NATIONAL MOVEMENT NATION SHOULD EXIST FIRST
THEY CALL IT IS COMMUNAL MOVEMENT
AS THERE WAS NO GRAND IDEA BEHIND LEADERS , WHO WERE JUST POWER BROKERS FOR THERE COMMUNITY
THEY WERE INTERESTED IN GETTING FAVOURS FROM BRITISH FOR THERE COMMUNITY
IT WAS COMMUNAL POLITICS WHICH MANIFESTED IN FORMATION OF PAKISTAN
AND NATURE CONTEMPORARY INDIA HASN'T CHANGED
NATIONALIST PRESPECTIVE:
NATIONALIST LEADERS REJECTS IMPERIALIST DISCOURSE
EARLY NATIONALIST: LIKE SURENDRANATH BANERGEE
HELD THAT INDIA IS NOT A NATION BUT A NATION IN MAKING
CULTURALIST NATIONALIST LIKE AUROBINDO GHOSH
MERGES NATIONALISM WITH PATRIOUTISM
INDIA IS NOT A NATION IN MAKING BUT A NATION FROM BEGINIG
NATIONALIST HISTOIRANS LIKE DR. TATRCHAND, RC MAJUMDAR
REJECTS CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL ARGUMENTS OF INDIA NATIONAL MOVEMENT AS EXCLUSIVE, COMMUNAL, NO GRAND IDEA
THEY SUGGEST CONGRESS WAS A NATIONAL PARTY WITH NATIONALIST LEADERS
ALSO SUGGESSTED SAMETHING BY GRANVILLE AUSTIN
THERE WAS DEFINITE DESIRE IN INDIAN TO EMERGE AS NATION
SURVIVAL OF INDIA AS A NATION AFTER INDEPENDENCE GIVEN EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL CHALENGES
SUGGEST WE CAN'T DISMISS INDIA OF INDIA AS A NATION
MARXIST PRESPECTIVE:
ACC. TO BENEDICT ANDERSON
NATIONALISM IS A INVERTED TRADITION : NATIONALISM IS INSTRUMENT OF BOURGEOIS CLASS
KARL MARX HIMSELF ANALYSED THE REVOLT OF 1857:
AND AS UNLIKE VD SAVARKAR CALLS IT FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
MARX CALLS IT A REVOLT OF FEUDAL ELEMENTS
MN ROY IN HIS BOOK "INDIA IN TRANSITION" HAS ANALYSED
CONGRESS AS BOUGEOISE PARTY AND GANDHI AS BOURGEOISE LEADER
SIMILAR VIEW HELD BY AR DESAI AND RP DUTT
STRUGGLE WAS B/W THE TWO ELITES : BRITISH AND INDIAN ELITE FOR POWER STRUGGLE
BUT BIPIN CHANDRA INSPITE BEING A MARXIST
INDIAN FREEDOM STUGGLE IS A NATIONAL MOVEMENT ... MOST SPECTACULAR MASS MOVT. SUCH THAT ITS WARMTH CAN BE FELT EVEN TODAY
DALIT PRESPECTIVE: OR SUBALTERN PRESPECTIVE
ONE OF EARLIEST EXPRESSION ABOUT BRITISH RAJ CAME FROM JYOTIBHA PHULE
HE HELD THAT PESHWA RAJ WAS WORSE THAN BRITISH RAJ... AS BRITISH INTRODUCED RULE OF LAW
AMBEDKAR INFLUENCED BY JYOTIBHA PHULE
AMBEDKAR REJECTS IDEA OF INDIA AS A NATION.. AND ALSO REJECTS CONGRESS LED MOVT. AS NATIONAL MOVT.
AMBEDKAR IDEAS OF NATIONALISM DERIVED FROM FRENCH REVOLUTION
I.E FRATERNITY
ACC. TO HIM NATION IS BUILT ON IDEA OF FRATERNITY
AMBEDKAR NEVER JOINED INC , ITS MOVT, , SUPPORTED JINNAH'S DEMANDS AND WANTED BRITISH TO STAY IN INDIA
EV RAMASWAMI NAICHER:
JOINED INC BUT LEFT IN 1925 HELDING CONGRESS AS A PARTY OF BRAHMANS AND THERE IS NO SCOPE FOR OTHER COMMUNITES IN IT
HE INITIATED SELF RESPECT MOVEMENT AGAINST BRAHMANISM AND FORMED A PARTY CALLED DRAVIDA KAZHGAM
WHICH LATER DEMANDED STATE FOR DRAVIDIANS
ALSO SUPPORTED JINNAH DEMAND FOR PAKISTAN
SOCIALIST PRESPECTIVE
LEADERS LIKE NEHRU, BOSE OTHER LIKE MINNO MASANI, ACHARYA NARENDRA DEV(FORMED CONGRESS SOCIALIST PARTY)
THEY DIDN'T OPPOSE CONGRESS BUT SOUGHT TO RADICIALISE POLITICAL PROGRAMS OF CONGRESS.
ALSO INFLUENCED BY GANDHI
RADICIAL HUMANIST VIEW:
BY MN ROY: INDIAN POLITICAL STRUGGLE AS BOURGEOISIE MOVEMENT
ACC. TO HIM NATIONALISM SUPRESS MEN.. RATHER THERE IS NEDD TO BUILT A COSMOPOLITAN PRESPECTIVE