UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1990 · Q1(c) · 20 marks
‘The new India was not to be built up, as late nineteenth century patriots had thought, by copious draught from the past, but rather by frequent injections from the energetic contemporary west.’
- Chapter
- Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas
- Topic
- Character of the Reform Movements: Reason, Revival and the West
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