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Discuss the social background of Indian nationalism.

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  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

"Social background" is best read in the plural. Indian nationalism did not rise from one social base but from several distinct formations that colonial rule created or remade — agrarian, professional, print-and-reform, subaltern and regional — which the movement then had to weld together. A. R. Desai's Social Background of Indian Nationalism (1948) supplies the…

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  • The agrarian background
  • The professional and intelligentsia background
  • The reform and print background
  • The subaltern background
  • The regional and linguistic background
  • Correctives to the class account
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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