The Progressive Movement in Its International Setting

In this paper, I will comment largely on what I have called ‘the international setting’ of the progressive movement as such. This, I want to do for several reasons. First, by the time I was invited to speak at this seminar [‘Awaaz Do: Legacy and Relevance of the Progressive Cultural Movement in India’, 13– 15 October 2011, New Delhi] a basic structure of presentations had been worked out and I could see that no discussion of the international context was projected in the programme, so I thought I would try to fill the gap.