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Question
Analyze the ways through which people of different communities developed a sense of collective belonging in India.
Solution
There are a number of ways in which the inhabitants of various regions came together to form a national identity:
- The identity of India came to be visually associated with the image of Bharat Mata.
- The image was first created by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. In the 1870s he wrote ‘Vande Mataram’ as a hymn to the motherland.
- Later it was included in his novel Anandamath and widely sung during the Swadeshi movement in Bengal.
- Moved by the Swadeshi movement, Abanindranath Tagore painted his famous image of Bharat Mata. In this painting Bharat Mata is portrayed as an ascetic figure; she is calm, composed, divine and spiritual.
- Ideas of nationalism also developed through a movement to revive Indian folklore.
- Icons and symbols in unifying people and inspiring in them a feeling of nationalism.
- During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, a tricolour flag (red, green and yellow) was designed.
- Another means of creating a feeling of nationalism was through reinterpretation of history. By the end of the nineteenth century many Indians began feeling that to instill a sense of pride in the nation.
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