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Examine the economic and social factors which led to the rise of Indian nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Early Indian Nationalism

Indian nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century emerged from the convergence of a shared material grievance against colonial exploitation and a new social class equipped, by education and organisation, to articulate that grievance in modern political terms.

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  • Economic Factors: Colonial Exploitation as a Unifying Grievance
  • Social Factors: The Making of a New Political Class
  • International Influences
  • Weighing the Two Strands

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