IGNOU HISTORY NOTES : India History From Mid 18th to Mid 19th Century - Reform Movement - II

IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

History India From Mid 18th to Mid 19th Century

Reform Movement - II

Structure

27.0 Objectives
27.1 Introduction
27.2 Vision of the Future
27.3 Method of Reform
27.4 Nature of the Movement
27.4.1 Social Questtom
27.4 2 Religious Ideas
27.4.3 Use of Scriptures
27.4.4 Link with the Past
27.5 Limitations
27.6 Prelude to Nationalism
27,7 Let Us Sum Up
27.8 Answers to Check Your Progress Exercises

27.0 OBJECTIVES

This Unit should be seen in continuation with the previous Unit. After you have gone
thlrough it you would learn: '

• the methods advocated by the 19th century intellectuals to implement their ideas of reform,
• the issues and ideas which were raised during the reform movement,
• the constraint which existed during this time, and
• the limitations and weaknesses of their endeavours.

27.1 INTRODUCTION

In the previous Unit you were introduced to a set of ideas on the culture and society
in India, articulated by the intellectual reformer of 19th century India. You have also
become familiar with the impact of these ideas, also referred to as the reform
Movement, on the existing social milieu. This Unit takes the story further and talks
about the aims of the movement and the method through which a new social order
was to be effected. The nature and limitations of the intellectual endeavour of the 19th
Fentury and its contribution to the development of nationalist thinking during the
Subsequent period would form the major areas of examination in this Unit. 

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