How did culture played an important role in development of nationalism in India in 18 and 19 century
Answers
Answer:
The development of nationalism did not come about only through wars and territorial expansion. Culture played an important role in creating the idea of the nation: art and poetry, stories and music helped express and shape nationalist feelings. Romanticism was a cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment. Romantic artists and poets generally became strong critics of reason and science in their glorified forms. The Romanticists dwelt more on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings. They were aiming at creating a sense of shared collective heritage and common cultural part to serve as the basis of a nation.
German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 – 1803), a Romantic, claimed that true German culture was to be discovered among the common people — das volk. He claimed that folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances held the true spirit of the nation (Volksgeist). He encouraged collecting and recording these forms of folk culture as essential to the nation-building process.
The emphasis on vernacular language and the collection of local folklore, as the Grimm brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1812) did, was not just to recover an ancient national spirit, but also to carry the modern nationalist message to large audiences who were mostly illiterate. Even though Poland no longer existed as an independent territory, national feelings were kept alive there through music and language.
mark me the brainlist please......
Answer:
The sense of collective belonging comes when people start thinking that they belong to the same nation. This party comes from the united struggle against the British under whom they suffer oppression, suppression and discrimination. And partly this comes from the cultural processes. Culture processes help people to build unity and create collective belongingness.
• Personification of Bharat Mata : Image of India was first transformed into Bharat Mata by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and later on by other artists like Abanindranath Tagore. He painted the image of Bharat Mata portraying her as a calm, composed, divine, spiritual and an ascetic figure.
• Songs and hymns : In the 1870s, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote 'Vande Mataram' as a hymn to the motherland. Later it was included in his novel Anandamath and widely sung during the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal.
• Revival of Folklore : Ideas of nationalism also developed through a movement to revive Indian folklore. These tales as believed, gave a true picture of traditional culture that had been corrupted and damaged by the outside forces. In Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore himself began collecting ballads, nursery rhymes and myths, and led the movement for folk revival. In Madras, Natesa Sastri published a massive four volume collection of Tamil folktales, The Folklore of Southern India.
• Symbols and Icons : The development of icons and symbols like the tricolour flag was done to unify people and inspire in them a feeling of nationalism. Carrying the flag, holding it aloft, during marches became a symbol of defiance.
• Reinterpretation of History : Another means of creating a feeling of nationalism was through reinterpretation of history. The nationalist histories urged the readers to take pride in India's great achievements in the past and struggle to change the miserable conditions of life under British rule.