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Indian Youth Congress (Socialist)

Political party youth wing

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6021882 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Indian Youth Congress (Socialist) was the youth wing of Indian Congress (Socialist). Suresh Kalmadi was the president of IYC(S) 1981–1986.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Indian Youth Congress (Socialist)” as political party youth wing. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Indian, Youth and Congress can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as political party youth wing. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6021882. VIAF identifies the subject as 136014547. The Library of Congress control number is n50075021. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981 and 1986.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Indian Youth Congress (Socialist)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Indian Youth Congress (Socialist) primary sources, Indian Youth Congress (Socialist) archive and Indian research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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This entry incorporates text from “Indian Youth Congress (Socialist)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.