Mention any two shortcomings or points of criticism of early nationalists.

Two shortcomings or points of criticism of early nationalists were-

1. In those early days, the Congress lacked mass appeal. It represented the English educated well-to-do and the middle classes that hardly constituted nearly a hundredth part of the country's population.
2. The early nationalists believed that sooner or later the British would agree to establish representative institutions in India. They could not see that British and Indian interests clashed with each other. Britain was using India's resources in order to increase its own wealth.