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Write short note : Response of Indian society to the early impact of West

  • UPSC 1998
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The word that matters is response. The nineteenth century is usually narrated as what the West did to India; sociologically it is more interesting as what Indians did with the West. The reaction was neither surrender nor refusal but a spread of simultaneous positions, each turning the new resources — print, law, association, school —…

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