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2024, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part C

The question of ‘subaltern’ in Indian revolutionary movement: A critical appraisal


Author(s): Dr. Prabal Saran Agarwal

Abstract: While early revolutionaries made no substantial effort to go beyond middle class educated youth and students either theoretically or in practice, later revolutionaries was also not very successful in this regard. But does this mean that the concerns of vast majority of the Indian population i.e. the peasantry were irrelevant for them? Looking at the propaganda literature, we clearly see that economic and social conditions of colonial India held a lot of importance for pre-Bhagat Singh era revolutionaries and greatly influenced their politics. Among the books which were circulated, the most common was Desh Ki Baat, a textbook on economic nationalism which described the destruction of peasants and artisans due to British rule in great detail. Arya Samaj played a very crucial role in the lives of most leaders of the revolutionaries of North India but for the purpose of circulating books among students, they preferred Arya Samaji Swami Satyadev Parivrajak’s texts on social and political themes more than Dayanand’s Satyartha Prakash. Books on revolutions and revolutionary thought were published and distributed. Religious idioms were used in these writings to express concrete political programmes.

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Dr. Prabal Saran Agarwal. The question of ‘subaltern’ in Indian revolutionary movement: A critical appraisal. Int J Hist 2024;6(2):165-167.
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