What are the outstanding features of freedom struggle ?

1- The movement popularized democratic ideas and institutions in India.

2- From the initial stages,the movement adopted a pro-poor orientation which was strengthened with the advent of Gandhi and the rise of the leftist who struggled to make the movement adopt a socialist outlook.

Mahatma Gandhi.

3- The movement also increasingly moved towards a program of radical agrarian reform. However, socialism did not,at any stage become the official goal of the Indian National Congress though there was a great deal of debate around it within the national movement and the Indian national congress during the 1930s and 1940s.

4- The national movement was, from its early days, fully committed to secularism. its leadership fought hard to inculcate secular values among the people and opposed the growth of communalism. And, despite the partition of India and the accompanying communal holocaust, it did succeed in enshrining secularism in the constitution of free India. 

5- They established the principle that Indians should hate British imperialism but not the British people. Consequently, they were supported by a large number of Englishmen women and political groups. They maintained close links with the progressive , anti-colonial and anti-imperialist outlook, which continues to characterize Indian foreign policy, was thus part of the legacy of the anti-imperialist struggle.

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