Question

Why were Jyoti rao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national
movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?​

Answer 1

Answer:

They were critical of the national movement run by upper-caste leaders because they held that this would serve the purposes of upper-castes. After the movement, these people would again talk of untouchability. Again they would say, "Me here and you over there". Periyar left the Congress in the reaction of an incidence of untouchability. Yes, their criticism helped the national struggle as unity. The forceful speeches, writings, and movements of such lower caste leaders did lead to rethinking and some self-criticisms among upper-caste nationalist leaders.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Mr. Walter Leaf published more than one attractive and convincing volume devoted to proving that the siege of Troy by the Hellenes was directly due to trade rivalries, and there has been a school of historians during the last half-century or more which has interpreted not only recent history but almost every war in the world from the fall of Nineveh to the fall of Constantinople as economic phenomena. It would be strange if, viewed from such a standpoint, present political conditions in India could not be made to explain themselves as the outcome of economic discontent and maladjustment.

Many explanations are at hand to suggest a close association between post-war unrest in India and economic conditions. Slowly but remorselessly the west is penetrating deeper and deeper into India. The movie and the motor-car are gradually if almost imperceptibly changing Indian village life, and broadcasting by radio is