Ideas strategies and mass mobilization

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Ideas supplied political objectives and moral language; strategies connected ideas to organized action; mobilization turned programmes into participation. A declared ideal does not show how a movement worked, and the same tactic could serve different purposes in different phases. Compare constitutional agitation, Swadeshi and boycott, revolutionary currents, Home Rule, satyagraha, non-cooperation, constructive activity, council politics, civil disobedience, labour and peasant organization, wartime mass action, armed formations and negotiation. For each strategy identify its theory of change, entry mechanism, organization and discipline, material or symbolic pressure, inclusiveness, risks, colonial response and transition. Keep programme, method, movement and outcome separate when evaluating effectiveness.