impact on india because of nationalism in europe !!!!
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The extraordinary protectionist start to Donald Trump’s presidency has brought nationalism to centre stage again — not that it has ever gone off stage in India since the troubles in the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar on a charge of sedition. Both Trump and the sedition charge have given nationalism a bad name. It comes with a pretty bad name anyhow because of its past association with Hitler’s National Socialism. But does that mean we should automatically condemn nationalism?
We should not because, we need nationalism. As long as we accept that the world is divided into nation states, should we not have some word that expresses affection for one’s nation, even perhaps national pride? Wasn’t the independence movement known as the Nationalist Movement. Wasn’t the party that led the movement the Indian National Congress?
On Sunday I took part in a discussion at the Gymkhana Club Literary Festival during which the moderator, the former captain of industry turned prolific and thought-provoking writer Gurcharan Das, suggested this need to express affection for one’s nation, and pride in it too, could be met by differentiating between nationalism and patriotism —a to oversimplify what he said the one bad, the other good. In reply I quoted Samuel Johnson’s dictum, “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”. When I got home, I looked up nationalism in my Oxford Dictionary and found it defined nationalism as patriotic feeling.
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There is an answer to this problem which some will regard as simplistic but works for me — realise that there is positive and negative nationalism. There is the nationalism of Trump, of the Brexiteers in Britain, of the extreme Right-wing politicians whose influence is growing elsewhere in Europe. It’s a nationalism which claims to instil the positive emotion of pride but is based on the negative emotion of fear. For this nationalism there has to be an enemy to fear. For both Trump and the Brexiteers, foreigners allegedly taking away jobs provide the enemy. In the case of the Brexiteers Europe was the enemy too. This form of nationalism is inevitably tinged with a hostility to foreigners in general.
In addition to the need for an enemy, nationalists have a negative, pessimistic, view of the present condition of their nations, and an unreal, glorified version of their past history. Hence, Trump’s claim that he will make America great again and the Brexiteers version of the history of World War II ascribing victory to Britain alone.
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This negative nationalism creates anger by encouraging the feeling that the nation has been taken away from those it rightfully belongs to. “Give us back our government,” chanted the Brexiteers. This sense of grievance is at the heart of Hindu nationalism — the belief that Muslims have prevented India becoming a Hindu nation. The nationalists’ interpretation of the Vedas and their history of those times provide a glorious past. There is a general sense of hostility to foreigners in their interpretation of swadeshi.
The rise and growth of Indian nationalism have been reported as an immediate response to nationalism in Europe.
Explanation:
- It improvised the establishment of a centralized state which was brought forward by the political and administrative unification of India. Nationalism put forward codified laws that were meant to be equal for every citizen.
- The impact was also seen in education which ultimately became the medium of communication which also develops the rationalist and democratic outlook.
- In the process, the development of transport and other means of communication took place followed by the emergence of the modern press. This period also revived the glorious heritage of India and reformation in social and religious ideas.
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