HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Raja Rammohun Roy
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Dadabhai Naoroji
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Detailed explanation-1: -Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the father of Indian Nationalism, the Father of Indian Renaissance and the Prophet of Indian Nationalism. He started the Brahmo Samaj in 1828.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bal Gangadhar Tilak is known as the father of assertive nationalism. He was also called by the British Colonial authorities as the father of the Indian unrest.
Detailed explanation-3: -Indian nationalists led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to make what was then British India, as well as the 562 princely states under British paramountcy, into a single secular, democratic state.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gopal Krishna Gokhale called Roy the ‘Father of Modern India’.
Detailed explanation-5: -Rabindranath Tagore, “Nationalism in India” (1917) | Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence | Oxford Academic.