Topic: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues;
2. Ghadarites fought in vain as they failed to achieve their desired objectives and hence Ghadar movement can be classified as a failure. Do you agree with this statement? Critically Analyze. (250 words)
Reference: India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra.
Why the question:
The question is part of the static syllabus of General studies paper – 1.
Key Demand of the question:
To Analyze critically as to whether or not the Ghadar movement was a failure.
Directive:
Critically analyze – When asked to analyse, you have to examine methodically the structure or nature of the topic by separating it into component parts and present them as a whole in a summary. When ‘critically’ is suffixed or prefixed to a directive, one needs to look at the good and bad of the topic and give a fair judgment.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
In brief, write about the Ghadar Movement and its aims and objectives it sought to achieve.
Body:
In first part, in line with its aims and objectives, write about how Ghadar movement in India and abroad took shape. Write briefly about its leaders and their attempts to overthrow the British rule.
In the next part, in detail analyze the success and failure of the Ghadarites in achieving their stated objectives. Mention about the preparation of the Ghadarites, the lack of secrecy and the suppression of the movement by the colonial government. Also, their relative failure in causing mass defections from the India army.
Mention the contributions of Ghadar movement in further deepening nationalist consciousness and ideology, the economic critique, impact on revolutionary nationalists and spread of nationalism abroad.
Conclusion:
Mention that the success or failure of a political movement is not always to be measured in terms of its achievement of stated objectives but by overall contribution and the legacy it created.
