The Renaissance in Bengal and Maharashtrian thought from 1850 to 1920

The undoubtedly verified historical facts about the middle class intellectual movements in Eastern and Western India are that they were similar in so far as the middle class intellectuals in both the areas were reacting to the impact of English ideas and English social organization. The two movements were, however, dissimilar in so far as the movement in Bengal went further than it did in Maharashtra in the sense that it became too diverse to be contained within a sectarian religious world view, as also that the forefathers of the" pioneers in Maharashtra were not debarred from all positions of power in the pre-British days as they were in Bengal.