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Highlight the major contributions of the reform movements in pre-independent India.

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  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

Nineteenth-century reform was less a moral awakening than a structural response. A. R. Desai read it as the expression of a contradiction between an older value system and new socio-economic realities — movements that were national in content but religious in form. K. L. Sharma adds the colonial trigger: Anglo-Brahmanical codification of personal law through…

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  • Legislative and legal change
  • The opening of education
  • A new method of arguing
  • A public sphere and associational life
  • Ideological groundwork of nationalism
  • The anti-caste contribution: rights, not reform
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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