The primary money and muscle that sustains the party is feudal in nature. It is not by default but by design. It manufactured a political class among the rich landowning Shudra farming community in rural India.24 Since the inception of the Congress Party, the caste elite in Indian society single-handedly ran the Congress project as a private enterprise. The movement towards Independence provided a golden opportunity to mobilize the masses, and its emotional appeal was effectively used to advance the caste elites’ goal of establishing their rule. M.K. Gandhi was used to shepherd a ‘cause’ that
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