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Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c3.3

Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c3.3

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c3.3

Not a small part of the psychological impetus that our freedom movement received was from the few expressions of appreciation that happened to fall from the pens or lips of Western scholars about Sanskrit literature, Indian philosophy, art or science. Sometimes these foreign opinions about past Indian achievements were seized upon and inflated out of all proportions so as to feed the slowly emerging national ethos.