How did figures or images help in developing Nationalism? Explain with examples from india and Europe?
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The identity of the nation, is often symbolised in a figure or image. This helps create an image with which people can identify the nation.
It was in the twentieth century, with the growth of nationalism, that the identity of India came to be visually associated with the image of Bharat Mata.
The image was first created by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. In the 1870s, he wrote ‘Vande Mataram’ as a hymn to the motherland.
Moved by the Swadeshi movement, Abanindranath Tagore painted his famous image of Bharat Mata.
In subsequent years, the image of Bharat Mata acquired many different forms, as it circulated in popular prints, and was painted by different artists.
Devotion to this mother figure came to be seen as evidence of one’s nationalism.
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