Discuss the views of various historians regarding the relationship between nationalism and peasantry

The historians have varied views regarding the relationship between the Congress, the foremost nationalist organisation, and the peasants. In this section, we will discuss the views of some historians on this issue.

The nationalist historians either pay little attention to peasant agitations or view the peasants as inert masses who were woken up by the nationalist leaders for participation in nationalist struggles. It is assumed that the peasants were apolitical to whom the nationalist activists brought the politics. The peasantry is generally seen as an undifferentiated mass whose arrival in the political arena was due to influence of the Gandhian nationalism. Thus, the peasant movements in the twentieth century were subsumed within the nationalist movement.

Most of the writings on peasantry belong to the broad Marxist approach. Although the Marxist historians accept that the nationalist movement made tremendous impact on peasant consciousness and movement, they tend to view the influence of the Congress, particularly Gandhi, as negative. They conceive the nationalist movement as bourgeois which preserved the interests of the propertied classes and was inclined to hinder, curb or ___ __________ ________ ________ ____ ________ _________ __________.
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