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Examine the social background of growth of Indian nationalism.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

A. R. Desai, in Social Background of Indian Nationalism (1948), makes the boldest claim available on this question: Indian nationalism has no pre-colonial ancestry, but is a modern formation produced by the material conditions colonial rule itself created. To examine that claim is to ask whether the transformations he lists were sufficient to make a…

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  • A colonial economy that made a single country
  • New classes, and a class that could speak
  • Print, reform and administrative unification
  • Where the explanation strains
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