Question

"History and friction,folklore and song popular prints and symbols all played a part in the making of nationalism in India" support the statement

Answer 1

The united freedom struggle and other forms of literature played an essential role in unifying people of India beyond the barriers of caste,creed, gender etc.
1. Nationalism being an abstract idea, needed to be acknowledged by the people.To do so,nationalism in India was allegorised as Bharat Mata by Bankim Chandra in 1870.
2. Bankim Chandra even wrote the Vande Mataram hymn which was later added to his novel Anandmath. This hymn was a song sung to depict patriotism during nationalism struggle riots.
3.Bharat Mata was modified by Abanindranath Tagore into a ascetic woman who was pure and divine.
4. This enabled the Indians to associate with the abstract idea of nationalism.
5.Towards the late 19th century,Indian nationalists felt the need to collect essential folklores of various regions of India so as to revive the pride filled culture which had been destroyed by the British.
6.Rabindranath Tagore collected these valuable pieces in India and Natesa Sastri did the same in Tamil Nadu.He publishes the Tamil folklores as a collection  names,The Folklores Of Southern India.
7.During the Swadeshi movement, a flag of red, yellow and green colour was created with the 8 lotuses standing for 8 provinces of the british and the moon standing for Hindus and Muslims
8. In 1921,Gandhiji created a flag of red,white and green with the charka at the center symbolising self help.This were carried during the nationalism movement.
9.As history is written by the Britains point of view, it showed India as an inferior nation.
10.Historians felt the need to rewrite the history and make people aware of their ancient golden India which had been ruined by  the British.
11. The drawback remained that most of the symbolisms were taken from Hinduism due to which other communities in the nation felty alienated


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