Question

With regard to the French Revolution, which among the following had reworked the sovereign nation-state by redefining the idea of freedom from the bondage into a movement?
1. Nobles
2. Jacobians
3. Socialists
4. Colonised people

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Colonised people

• The French Revolution led to the end of monarchy in France. A society based on privileges gave way to a new system of governance.
• The Declaration of the Rights of Man during the revolution, announced the coming of a new time.
• The idea that all individuals had rights and could claim equality became part of a new language of politics.
• These notions of equality and freedom emerged as the central ideas of a new age; but in different countries they were reinterpreted and rethought in many different ways.
• The anti-colonial movements in India and China, Africa and South America, produced ideas that were innovative and original, but they spoke in a language that gained currency only from the late eighteenth century.
• The ideas of liberty and democratic rights were the most important legacy of the French Revolution.
• These spread from France to the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century, where feudal systems were abolished.
• Colonised peoples reworked the idea of freedom from bondage into their movements to create a sovereign nation state.
• Tipu Sultan and Rammohan Roy are two examples of individuals who responded to the ideas coming from revolutionary France.