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How has the Marxist Perspective been applied to explain social background of Indian nationalism ?

  • UPSC 2008
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The question is about application, so it is best answered in three steps: what the Marxist perspective supplies as a method, what Indian scholars obtained when they turned that method on the rise of nationalism, and where the yield fell short.

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  • The method it supplies
  • First application: dating and naming colonial India
  • Second application: from classes to a movement
  • What the application missed
  • Conclusion

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