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Who is critical of Carlyle’s account of the French Revolution?

History · Sources of Modern Indian History UGC NET December 2023 History
Passage
The writers who profess to write the history of the Revolution that was enacted in India in 1857 do not try to discuss the real causes that led to it. On all great religious and political revolutions it is impossible to connect together the links apparently inconsistent without thoroughly understanding the principles which are at work. Mazzini, in a critical article on Carlyle's French Revolution, has said that every revolution must have a fundamental principle. A revolutionary movement cannot be based on flimsy and momentary grievances. The great principles of the 1857 revolt were Swadharma and Swaraj. Equally misleading is the theory that the rising was due to the annexation of Oudh or to the greased cartridges. The emperor of Delhi, Bahadur Shah Zafar, in his proclamation of Swaraj, said: Hindus and Muslims of India, arise, arise, O brothers.
Who is critical of Carlyle's account of the French Revolution?
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DGibbon
Correct answer: (C) Mazzini — The answer is Mazzini, who criticised Carlyle's account of the French Revolution.
Explanation
The answer is Mazzini, who criticised Carlyle's account of the French Revolution.
He argued that every revolution must have a fundamental principle.
A revolutionary movement, he held, cannot rest on trivial and momentary grievances.
Mazzini founded Young Italy in 1831 to unite and free Italy.
His thought deeply influenced Indian revolutionaries like Savarkar.
The other figures were statesmen and historians, not the critic referred to here.

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