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Assess the impact of the west in the shaping the Indian renaissance movement in the 19 th centuary.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The word "renaissance" is itself an import — a European periodisation borrowed to name a colonial awakening — and borrowing it concedes part of the answer. Assessed carefully, the West supplied the occasion, the instruments and much of the vocabulary of nineteenth-century reform, but neither its motive nor its content; and the result was far…

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  • What the West supplied
  • What was not Western
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