UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1985 · Q1(d) · 20 marks
'These religion-reform movements were national in content but religious in form. It was in the later stages of our national existence, that nationalism found exclusively or predominantly secular forms.'
- Chapter
- Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas
- Topic
- Reform Movements and Nationalism
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