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What were the main trends of social reform movements in nineteenth century? Critically discuss any one internal revitalization movement in Indian society.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Nineteenth-century reform answered colonial rule and missionary criticism across Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Parsi society. A. R. Desai (Social Background of Indian Nationalism, 1948) read them as national in content, religious in form — the ideology of classes thrown up by colonial capitalism.

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  • Main trends of nineteenth-century reform
  • Revitalization: the concept
  • The Arya Samaj critically discussed
  • Conclusion

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