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What were the various ways in which nationalism manifested itself in India during colonial rule?
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- Early Indian Nationalism
Indian nationalism under colonial rule was never a single, unified current but a plural, multi-registered response to a common colonial condition, taking different institutional forms, ideologies, and social bases across region, class, and period.
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- Constitutional Moderate Nationalism
- Extremist and Cultural-Revivalist Nationalism
- Revolutionary Terrorism
- Home Rule and Elite Constitutional Mobilization
- Gandhian Mass Nationalism
- Left, Socialist and Communist Nationalism
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