AMSWER FAST Question no. 20
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Role of cultural processes in making of nationalism in India:
1. The sense of collective belonging came partly through the experience of united struggles.
2. There were also a variety of cultural processes through which nationalism captured peoples’
imagination.
3. History, fiction, folklore and songs, popular prints and symbols played a part in the making of nationalism.
4. The identity of the nation is most often symbolised in a figure or an image.
This helped to create an image with which people can identify the nation.
(a) This sense of collective belonging came partly through the experience of united struggles and growing anger among people against the colonial government.
(b) But there were also a variety of cultural processes through which nationalism captured people‘s imagination :
(1) The identity of the nation symbolised in a figure or image of Bharat Mata created through literature, songs, paintings etc.
(2) Movement to revive Indian folklore to enhance nationalist sentiments.
(3) Role of icons and symbols in unifying people and inspiring in them a feeling of nationalism.
(4) Creating a feeling of nationalism was through reinterpretation of history.