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“The tensions between cultural revivalism and modernisation shaped the trajectory of the socio-religious reform movements in 19th century India.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

The trajectory of nineteenth-century socio-religious reform can be read as an unresolved contest between two impulses — to modernise Indian society along rational, universal lines, and to revive and defend a distinctively Indian civilisational past.

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  • Phase One: The Early Modernising Impulse (1810s–1860s)
  • Phase Two: The Turn Toward Revivalist Assertion (1870s–1890s)
  • Phase Three: Fusion into Cultural Nationalism (1890s–1900s)
  • Assessing the Tension

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