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How have social reform movements in colonial India contributed to modernization of Indian society ?

  • UPSC 2012
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Modernisation in India began not with the factory or the franchise but with a nineteenth-century argument about the authority of custom, carried by the reform movements. In M. N. Srinivas' vocabulary much of what followed was Westernisation; in Yogendra Singh's, heterogenetic change entering through colonial law, education and print rather than from within the tradition's…

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  • The movements
  • Mechanisms of modernisation
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