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‘The new India was not to be built up, as late nineteenth century patriots had thought, by copious draught from the past, but rather by frequent injections from the energetic contemporary west.’ Comment

  • UPSC 1990
  • Consolidation as a Nation

The statement contrasts the revivalist nationalism of the late nineteenth century with the modernist, Nehruvian vision of nation-building after 1947.

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  • The Pull of the Past in Late Colonial Nationalism
  • Nehru's Turn to the "Energetic Contemporary West"
  • The Limits of the Break

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