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“Asian Nationalism is just a product of Western impact on the Asian intelligentsia in the last decades of the nineteenth century.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

The claim that Asian nationalism was wholly a derivative product of Western-educated intelligentsia absorbing European liberal ideas is a familiar but only partially accurate reading of a far more layered historical process.

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  • The Case for the "Western Impact" Thesis
  • The Counter-Evidence: Indigenous and Subaltern Roots
  • A Synthesis: Multiple, Layered Origins

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