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Critically comment in 150 words: “The Arya Samaj may quite logically be pronounced as the outcome of condition imported into India from the West.”

  • UPSC 2017
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Lala Lajpat Rai's remark captures a real causal link, though not a straightforward derivative one.

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  • Western Conditioning Visible
  • The Indigenous Counter-Case
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