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“Two important intellectual criteria which informed the reform movements were rationalism and religious universalism.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

The nineteenth-century reform movements drew their intellectual energy less from wholesale imitation of the West than from two interlocking principles — reasoned enquiry and the conviction that truth transcends any single creed.

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  • Rationalism as a Tool of Social and Religious Critique
  • Religious Universalism as a Complementary Criterion
  • Rationalism and Universalism Reinforced a Secular Turn
  • Limits of the Framework

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