Independent Labour Party 1936
Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Independent Labour Party was a political party that B.R. Ambedkar founded in 1936. It spoke for workers and the depressed classes, the castes treated as untouchable. It also took up issues such as landlord oppression of poor peasants. It showed that dalits wanted their own political voice, separate from the Congress.
Example
In the 1937 elections, the party won several seats in the Bombay legislature. In 1942, Ambedkar replaced it with the Scheduled Castes Federation.
Don't confuse with
- Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha (1924): this was Ambedkar's earlier social-welfare body. It did not contest elections.
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- All India Trade Union Congress
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- Women in the civil disobedience movement
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