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Examine how Indian Nationalism was a result of ‘Akhand Bharat’/Indian Subcontinent’s socio-cultural and political consciousness.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

Two rival answers exist to the question of where Indian nationalism came from. A. R. Desai, in Social Background of Indian Nationalism (1948), holds that it was manufactured by colonial capitalism and has no pre-colonial ancestry. The claim in the question is the opposite pole: that the nation pre-existed the state which named it, and…

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  • The civilisational thesis at its strongest
  • Testing the claim
  • The sharpest objection
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