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The American Revolution “was a natural and even expected event in the history of colonial people who had come of age.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The claim treats the American Revolution (1765–83) less as a sudden ideological rupture than as the almost inevitable culmination of a colonial society that had, over a century and a half, developed the institutions, self-confidence, and grievances of an adult polity chafing against parental control.

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  • Political Maturation: Self-Government Already Achieved
  • Economic and Social Maturation
  • The Precipitating Crisis: Why 1765–76 and Not Earlier
  • A Qualification: Was It Truly "Expected"?

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