the brakes on resistance against the Raj. Narrow localism often impeded the progress of the insurgen's at critical moments. Localism not only continues to come in the way of a concerted movement against the present Indian ruling classes, it is increasingly assuming aggressive and fraricidal forms to divide the exploited classes. Practitioners of radical movements in modern India are yet to overcome the impediment tha hampered the pro gress of peasant insurgency in the 18th and 19th centuries.