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Question
Explain how the famine and plague influenced the growth of Assertives Nationalism in India.
Solution
Towards the close of the nineteenth century there were two consecutive famines within a period of ten years. The people had to suffer untold miseries and hardships. After the famine: there was always an outbreak of some epidemic like plague, etc. The feelings of Indians were
extremely injured at the cold attitude of the English towards such ugly happenings in India. The people painfully realized the evils of the British rule.
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