LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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Hostility to dissenters
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Complete non-resistance to the monarchy
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Support for Jacobites
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A conservative, reactionary group that favored the aristocracy, whose power base was the rural squirearchy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tory has become shorthand for a member of the Conservative Party or for the party in general in Canada and the UK, and can be used interchangeably with the word Conservative.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a political term, Tory was an insult (derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí, meaning “outlaw", “robber", from the Irish word tóir, meaning “pursuit” since outlaws were “pursued men") that entered English politics during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678–1681.
Detailed explanation-3: -In ideology, reactionism is a tradition in right-wing politics; the reactionary stance opposes policies for the social transformation of society, whereas conservatives seek to preserve the socio-economic structure and order that exists in the present.
Detailed explanation-4: -the new Tory government in Britain constituted a Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon. Set up in response to the nationalist movement, the commission was to look into the functioning of the constitutional system in India and suggest changes. The problem was that the commission did not have a single Indian member.