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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Indian National Congress"”.
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The decline of a dominant party : the Indian National Congress, 1967-1977
… done by examining the precipitous decline of the Indian National Congress over a ten-year period from 1967, where Congress lost its first state-level elections, to 1977, where the party was finally rejected at the national level after three decades of dominance.
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The origins of the peasant agitation in Oudh : the awakening of the peasants?
… were eventually brought together and into the Indian National Congress' fold. Having examined the issues which led to peasant discontent, the organization of peasants into Kisan Sabhas and the role played by the Indian National Congress in relation to the peasants' cause, I argue that contrary …
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One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies : The African National Congress and Indian National Congress in Comparative Perspective : A Study in Party Systems and Agency in Post-Colonial India and Post-Apartheid South Africa
… on processes of democratic consolidation, national integration and socio-economic development.Trying to examine the role of party agency in this regard and to assess the role of the party system as the independent variable, the dissertation deals with two regional and temporal contexts and …
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At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism
This dissertation situates Indian nationalist politics in a broad, international context of anti-imperialist movements beginning in the late colonial and interwar period. The archival record is rich with sources on the international and transnational connections of the Indian National Congress …
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The counterinsurgency policies of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party of India and the Naxalite insurgency
… tribal peoples to its advantage. By 2006, the Indian National Congress (INC) government declared the insurgency a great threat to national security but implemented only half-hearted counterinsurgency efforts. In 2014, the Hindu nationalist party (Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP) came to power …
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The Lokamanya and the Sardar : two generations of Congress 'communalism'
… within the major movement dedicated to achieving Indian nationhood, the Indian National Congress. From its founding in 1885, the organization espoused secular ideals and a broad vision of Indian nationalism which would be inclusive of all religious communities. Nevertheless, a strong undercurrent …
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India at the United Nations: a postcolonial nation-state on the global stage, 1945-1955
Prior to Indian independence, the Indian National Congress made savvy use of the United Nations as a global stage upon which to establish a sense of inevitability around postcolonial Congress leadership despite the uncertainty of post-independence power sharing in New Delhi. The aspirational …
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China's Forgotten Revolution: Radical Conservatism in Action, 1927-1949
… a rightwing program that stressed interclass and national unity. Under Chiang Kai-shek's leadership, the Guomindang put an end to the ideological ambiguity of Sun Yat-sen's national revolution, broke ties the party forged with the Communist International in 1923, and launched an all-round assault …
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The idea of planning in India, 1930-1951
… of Ranade, Naoroji and Dutt and other 'moderate nationalist' economic thinkers, a positive state intervention in economic activities was considered as essential for the development of the Indian economy. It was this notion which was eventually to develop into the idea of planning during the two …
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The idea of planning in India, 1930-1951
… of Ranade, Naoroji and Dutt and other 'moderate nationalist' economic thinkers, a positive state intervention in economic activities was considered as essential for the development of the Indian economy. It was this notion which was eventually to develop into the idea of planning during the two …