How did western thought and education help in the promotion of nationalism?

With the spread of western education and thought, the Indians came into contact with the west and imbibed a modern, rational, secular, democratic and national outlook. The American Revolution, the French Revolution and other revolutions in Europe inspired the Indians with the ideals/watchwords of liberty, equality and fraternity. They acquired the ideals watchwords of democracy, freedom and nationalism from the writings of western thinkers.