What is the impact of composite culture on art, architecture and literature?
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Culture is the arts, customs, and institutions of a nation, people or group. ‘Composite’ means ‘made up of various parts’. “Culture is a sense of ultimate values possessed by a particular society as expressed in its collective institutions by its individual members in their dispositions, feelings, attitudes and manners as well as in significant forms which they give to material object”, as mentioned in The National Culture India.
The highlight of our society has been its composite culture. This is the main reason of our unity. Not to forget, before India became a nation-state, partition took place which was a result of infamous communal politics that ripped apart our polity. But even after all this, India’s composite culture remained intact.
There have been various influences that have come in the form of commerce, trade, conquests, religion, culture, etc that have shaped our society. The making of composite culture started in the era of Dravidians, magoloid. Then came the Aryans. Later, the medieval ages saw the arrival of the Uzbeks, the Turkomans, the Iranians, the Afghans and the Pathans. Many exchanges took place resulting in culture integration and mixture. During the 12th & 16th Century there was amalgamation of the Indian, Iranian and Arabian heritages.
Composite culture is very broad focusing mainly on tolerance, adaptiveness of a unique individual. The intermingling of Hindu and Islamic religious beliefs gave birth to Sufism. The national freedom struggle also had ingredients of composite culture. Many people of various communities rallied all over and participated in large numbers braving many odds.
There are many efforts made by the communal and the fundamentalists to collapse the structure of composite culture. Their strategy was aimed at the establishment of a theocratic state.
Hence, it won’t be false to say that Composite culture is celebrated by some and denounced by others. It is necessary for progressive people to close ranks and combat these forces opposed to composite culture. Only then, there are chances of our astounding democracy and culture to survive.
The highlight of our society has been its composite culture. This is the main reason of our unity. Not to forget, before India became a nation-state, partition took place which was a result of infamous communal politics that ripped apart our polity. But even after all this, India’s composite culture remained intact.
There have been various influences that have come in the form of commerce, trade, conquests, religion, culture, etc that have shaped our society. The making of composite culture started in the era of Dravidians, magoloid. Then came the Aryans. Later, the medieval ages saw the arrival of the Uzbeks, the Turkomans, the Iranians, the Afghans and the Pathans. Many exchanges took place resulting in culture integration and mixture. During the 12th & 16th Century there was amalgamation of the Indian, Iranian and Arabian heritages.
Composite culture is very broad focusing mainly on tolerance, adaptiveness of a unique individual. The intermingling of Hindu and Islamic religious beliefs gave birth to Sufism. The national freedom struggle also had ingredients of composite culture. Many people of various communities rallied all over and participated in large numbers braving many odds.
There are many efforts made by the communal and the fundamentalists to collapse the structure of composite culture. Their strategy was aimed at the establishment of a theocratic state.
Hence, it won’t be false to say that Composite culture is celebrated by some and denounced by others. It is necessary for progressive people to close ranks and combat these forces opposed to composite culture. Only then, there are chances of our astounding democracy and culture to survive.
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