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“The very idea of the bomb and the secret society, and of propaganda through action and sacrifice were import from the West.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Other Strands in the National Movement

Contemporary British officials were quick to read Indian revolutionary terrorism as a foreign graft — an assessment that was politically convenient but only partially accurate.

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  • The Genuine Western Genealogy
  • The Indigenous Counter-Current
  • Continuity Into the Later Phase

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