The concept of India as one nation began to take the shape under the French
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As the French Revolution took place the India started to take ideas from the philosophers of the French of that time example montesqui stated that there should be division of power in the horizontal level which is legislative judiciary and executive . aand more like adiption of constitution.
One of the oft-repeated urban myths that sometimes pops-up in conversation even among many educated, well meaning Indians is that India as a nation is a British creation. The argument goes roughly as follows – India is an artificial entity. There are only a few periods in history when it was unified under the same political entity. It was only the British that created the idea of India as a single nation and unified it into a political state. A related assumption, in our minds, is that the developed Western countries have a comparatively far greater continuity of nationhood, and legitimacy as states, than India.
This urban myth is not accidental. It was deliberately taught in the British established system of education. John Strachey, writing in `India: Its Administration and Progress’ in 1888, said “This is the first and most essential thing to remember about India – that there is not and never was an India, possessing … any sort of unity, physical, political, social or religious; no Indian nation.
To teach this self-serving colonial narrative obviously suited the British policy of divide and rule. That it still inanely survives means that it is worth setting to rest.
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This modem concept of nation is mainly a Post- French Revolution (1789) phenomenon. The exciting ideas of the French Revolution caught the imagination of ambitious individuals m many countries. The curious point is that the crucial basis for the emergence of the idea of nation was provided by colonialism