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Examine the impact of British rule on Indian Society in the 19th Century.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Social and Cultural Developments

The nineteenth century saw Indian society pulled between colonial disruption and colonial-triggered regeneration, so that British rule ended up simultaneously eroding old certainties and midwifing a new social consciousness.

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