History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2018 History
Which one of the following statements regarding the Marxist school of Indian historiography is not correct?
AThe foundations of this school, so far as the study of the national movement is concerned, were laid by R. Palme Dutt and A.R. Desai, but several others developed it over the years.
BThey tend to see the national movement as a structured bourgeois movement.
CThey interpret the class character of the national movement in terms of its forms of struggle, its strategic retreats and compromises.
DThey believed that access to financial resources did not determine the ability to influence the course and direction of national politics. ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) They believed that access to financial resources did not determine the ability to influence the course and direction of national politics. — The statement about financial resources is not correct, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The statement about financial resources is not correct, so that is the answer.
★The Marxists in fact believed that access to financial resources did influence national politics.
★They held that money shaped the course and direction of the movement.
★So the claim that it did not determine influence is wrong.
★They opposed the concentration of wealth in few hands and were critics of capitalism.
★The other statements about the Marxist school are correctly stated.
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