Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Elsewhere: Colonialism, basically, implied economic relation but it widely influenced existing socio-cultural structure as well. In fact, the need for efficient economic exploitation of the colony demanded the cultural hegemonisation by metropolitan state. So the colonial state in India started socio-cultural engineering to serve its colonial interest. The colonial interference by the metropolitan state registered two different types of responses from the Indian people that is influence versus reaction. Whereas influence encouraged Indian intellectual to restructure the Indian past and culture with a rational and critical approach, reactions resulted in uncritical adoration … Continue reading Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Elsewhere