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“Political reform must precede and not follow social reforms”. (Tilak). Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2007, 1994
  • Party System

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The statement condenses Bal Gangadhar Tilak's side of the fiercest quarrel in early Indian nationalism: whether Indians should first win swaraj or first cleanse their own society. The dispute was over sequence and agency, not over whether reform was needed.

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