4 SOCIAL SCJ]ENTl$T v ^ Hindi literature were, in tjb^ir bajsic stypc^ure, similar to those elsewhere, Regional variations relating to such matters as the nature of early political consciousness2 and exposure to English education and to new political ideas and institutions did not, it would seem, impede the growth of an identical colonial consciousness in the country as a whole. The similarity in the thought and response structure of colonial India, besides defyfag regional tariatioti^, also cut across such politico-ideological divisions as the one between 'moderates' and 'extremists'. These divisions, at the level of political organisation, manifested real differences of perception of the possible. But in terms of implicit assumptions they shared an uneasy ambivalence aboM the jcoloaial Gtma^cjtiro. IRisjwtioB. of &he Qowcitlw m^ ^o^tet, progressively got tto bjett l^ak, with T^ditiongl^wsibiy^y- Bhadraten-du Harisb^haKd^a (1850-1885) was thje iaiai| wh(^ wtb tbe hel^ of a zealous groeriod of Hmdi literataire. Without ceasing to Wstft-w the ,coOToaAA Bom^n a^jaaeiea^t ckh family o£ftenarjes, 'the fiitaai3a. ^ > , ^ j T All i&sues 3rebAiing)]t(x isaoial r^ooAis.tjij^tiefl got iateyimktd eventually with the key question of freedom and subjection. Consequently, barring his e^nventioaal erotic poetry, almost ^veryttun^