UPPCS 2024 GS-I · 12 marks · 200 words
Evaluate the contribution of Uttar Pradesh to the freedom struggle with special reference to the movements of 1920–1947.
1920–1947 के आंदोलनों के विशेष संदर्भ में स्वतंत्रता संग्राम में उत्तर प्रदेश के योगदान का मूल्यांकन कीजिए।
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- Non-Cooperation in UP: Awadh Kisan Sabha, Baba Ramchandra; Chauri Chaura (1922) and its consequence
- Civil Disobedience: no-revenue campaigns in Agra-Awadh; Rae Bareli firing
- 1942 Quit India: Ballia's 'parallel government' under Chittu Pandey — the canonical UP episode
- Leadership contribution: Nehru, Purushottam Das Tandon, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
- Balanced note: peasant-nationalist tension (Awadh 1921-22 eviction riots vs Congress restraint)
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