| (Online Course) GS Concepts : Mordern Indian History - Causes Responsible for the Rise of Indian Freedom Struggle Posted: 19 Jul 2012 01:03 AM PDT 
Subject : Modern Indian History
Chapter : Nature and Causes For The Rise of National Movement Topic: Causes Responsible for the Rise of Indian Freedom Struggle. Ques. 1 : Briefly discuss the causes responsible for the rise of Indian freedom struggle? Ans. At the beginning of the 19th century India was regarded as one of the few countries with least possibilities for the rise of nationalism or the growth of national movement. The main reason for such assumptions was that the vast population of India was not only politically and backward but also disunited by barriers of language, religion, culture etc. The dearth of unifying sense of nationalism and patriotic feelings was one of the cogent contributing factors to the foundation and consolidation of the British rule in India. Certain colonial scholars did not even regard India as a nation. But India, throughout the course of her history had enjoyed inherent unity in diversity. This unity in diversity greatly helped in the rise and growth of Indian National Movement. The 19th and early 20th centuries were an age of democratic, liberal and nationalist ideas. The American War of Independence, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1917 etc., greatly inspired the rise and growth of the National Movement in India. No doubt all these external events, internal turmoils and self-realisation together inspired the rise and growth of the Indian National Movement. India's National Movement was truly Indian in the respect that it was world's first struggle for freedom based on truth and non-violence and its foundations was laid by the socio-religious reform movement of the 19th century. CAUSES Among the many causes responsible for the rise of the national movement the following deserve special mention: -
The Macaulavian system of education though conceived in the interests of efficient administration opened to the newly educated Indians the foodgates of liberal European thought The liberal and radical thoughts of European writers inspired the Indian intelligentsia with the ideals of liberty, nationality and self-government. The spread and expansion of the English language gave to the Indians living in different linguistic regions a common language-lingua franca.
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