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EXTENDING THE APPEAL OF CONGRESS, MEMBERSHIP OF CONGRESS, -HOW DID…
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MEMBERSHIP OF CONGRESS
The more conservative members were frustrated that it had turned from a pressure group to defiance towards the Raj,
Starting with a base of 100,000 it grew to 2,000,000 by 1921
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-HOW DID CONGRESS EXTEND APPEAL?
-It extended its appeal to a larger spread of areas through the subcontinent.
-Wooed interest groups that hitherto and had been untapped.
Richer peasantry and railway workers.
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Gandhi revitalised the organisation . Membership of the AICC went from 161 to 350 and greater emphasis was put on recruiting women and hitherto untapped groups.
He set up the CWC that would formulate policy for Congress.
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On release from Prison he wanted to go back to basics, believing that a simple life would destroy the organisation of the Raj.
Set up All India Spinner's association to spread the importance of spinning for self-sufficiency. (1925)
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He persuaded a willing congress to embark on campaigns of mass literacy and for the improvement of sanitation.
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