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Discuss the extent to which the Indian Renaissance movement contributed towards the rise of nationalist consciousness.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

The Indian Renaissance was never simply a set of theological quarrels; it built — unevenly and indirectly — the cultural ground on which a specifically Indian national consciousness could stand.

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  • Restoring Cultural Self-Respect as a Pre-Condition of Nationhood
  • Forging a Pan-Regional Reformist Vocabulary
  • Institution-Building as a Training Ground for Political Organisation
  • The Directly Political Charge Within Reform
  • The Limits: A Narrow, Elite, and Ambivalent Base

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