How was the sense of collective belonging developed during the freedom movement explain it?
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1)The sense of collective belonging came partly through united struggles and partly through various cultural proceses
2) The nation often has an identity because people can relate to an image such image of bharat mata was made by bankim chandra chaddopahya who wrote the song 'vande maatram' a hymn to motherland
3) Abindranath tagore also created a painting of bharat mata. She was a calm and astethic figure. Devotion to this image came to be related with one's nationalism
4) various writers and leaders started collecting local folklores and ballads which tells about the culture of the country and even the glorious past of india and it's achievements
5). Variou symbols were creates. In bengal during swadeshi andolan a flag was created which was tri coloured and had eight lotuses representing the eight provinces and a crescent moon which represented hindu and muslims there was another flag made by gandhi which was again tricoloured but had a charkha in the centre which represented gandhian idea of self help
Thus we can say that nationalism comes when people have a sense of collective belonging.