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The development of nationalism did not come
about only through territarial expansion
culture play in important role in
creating the idea of the nation
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becase India is a democratic country and fullneck.
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Nationalism did come only by territorial expansions but culture also helped in creating a feeling of nationalism. This of because of the following reasons :
• Culture played a vital role in creating a idea of nation, art and poetry, stories and music helped to express and arouse nationalist feelings.
• A cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment is known as Romanticism. Romantic artists and poets generally criticised the glorification of reason and science focussed instead on emotion, intuition and mystical feelings. Their effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, a common cultural past as the basis of nation.
• It was through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of nation (Volksgeist) was popularised.
• German philosophers like Johann Gottfried Herder stated that true German culture was to be discovered among the common people (Das Volk) .
• French painter Delacroix depicted an incident through his painting, in which 20000 Greeks were assumed to have been killed by Turks. This was to arouse the feeling of sympathy for Greeks in the minds of viewer.
• Karol Kurpinski celebrated national struggle through his operas and music, turning folk dances like Polonaise and Mazurka into nationalist symbols.
• Language played a very important role in developing nationalist sentiments. Though regional langauges brought some difficulties in the unification of the country, thus a common national language was adopted in many places. Vernacular langauges became one of the important reasons as folk dances, folk songs which promoted the spirit of nationalism.
• In 1831, an armed rebellion against the Russian took places but it was crushed . After the failure of this rebellion, members of clergy in Poland began to use language as the weapon of national resistance. Polish langauge became the langauge of Church gatherings and all religious instructions. Many priests and bishops who refused to preach in Russian were sent to Siberia in jails or were executed. Polish langauge was forced out of schools and Russian langauge became obligatory.