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“The contact of the new Indian middle class with the West proved to be a catalyst. The social and religious movements launched by Rammohan or Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar have to be understood in this context.” Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Reading Raja Rammohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's reform careers against the new middle class's contact with the West clarifies why their movements took a distinctly reformist rather than purely imitative or purely revivalist shape.

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  • Rammohan Roy: Western Contact as the Trigger for Religious Reform
  • Vidyasagar: Middle-Class Rationalism Applied to Social Legislation
  • The Common Pattern: Catalyst Without Capture

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