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| Ways of thinking ........ John Stuart Mill's essay 'On Liberty' soon after its publication became a text in Indian colleges. Indians came to know about Magna Carta and the struggle for liberty and equality in Europe and America. |
Mention the kind of Westernization being referred to in the given source.
Solution
The source refers to the literate minority's sub-cultural form of intellectual westernization.
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