Abstract: Associations brought nineteenth-century India across the threshold of modern politics. Sometimes religious zeal, sometimes caste solidarity encouraged the propensity towards associations, but during the course of the century more of the associations in India were brought into being by groups of men united by secular interests. What now held them together were common skills and functions, a common education, and common aspirations and resentments against the policies of the Raj, not simply the bonds of joint family, caste and district. There was a time when these would have been the only points of union; but now that this was no longer so, Indians were converging on modern politics.
Publication Year: 1968
Publication Date: 1968-03-02
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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