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Article: A History of Modern India: Moderates, Extremists & Swadeshi Movement
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Parvathi Menon
India Abroad
11-15-1996
A History of Modern India: Moderates, Extremists & Swadeshi Movement.
The moderate section of the Indian National Congress wished to work for the limited objective of administration reform, primarily through petitioning the colonial rulers. Acquiring a stronger hold over the organization was the militant section, the "extremists," who felt that unless the Congress broke out of the "petition mode" they would make little headway in realizing their demands. Mass Movement
The extremists believed in agitational methods of struggle, of sacrificing - with one's life if need be - for the nationalist cause. They also believed in drawing the masses into a ...