AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
The Congress was apprehensive that supporting 'no rent' campaigns would upset rich peasants and landlords, who were important pillars of the movement. Poor peasants (small tenants) wanted rent remitted to landlords, but this demand directly threatened landlord interests. Since rich peasants and landlords were key supporters, Congress chose not to alienate them by backing the poorer peasants' radical demands.
This reveals that Congress prioritised maintaining a broad anti-imperial coalition over addressing class-based economic grievances. It deliberately avoided internal class conflicts to keep diverse groups — landlords, rich peasants, industrialists — united under one nationalist banner, even at the cost of leaving poor peasants uncertain and insufficiently represented.
Source: Chapter 2, Section 3.2 – How Participants saw the Movement
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The examiner looks for two parts: (1) the specific reason — fear of alienating rich peasants/landlords — and (2) what it reveals about Congress's strategy — maintaining unity across classes for anti-imperial goals. Quoting or closely paraphrasing the textbook phrase "apprehensive of raising issues that might upset the rich peasants and landlords" shows source-grounding. Avoid long elaboration; at 3 marks, two tight paragraphs are sufficient.