Question
Which characteristics made the Congress an ideological coalition during the freedom movement of India ?
Solution
It brought together diverse groups, whose interests were often contradictory. Peasants and industrialists, urban dwellers and villagers, workers and owners, middle, lower, upper classes and castes, all found space in the congress.
It accommodated the revolutionary and pacifist, conservatives and radical, extremist and moderate and the right, left and all shades of the centre. The congress was a ’platform’ for numerous groups, interests and even political parties to take part in the national movement.
