Answer:
It
means that people began to believe that they were all a part of the same nation
and discovered some unity, which bound them together.
(i) Main cultural processes:
(a)It was with the growth of nationalism, that the
identity of India was associated with the image of Bharat Mata.
(b) This image was first created by Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay, who wrote the song 'Vande Mataram' in his nove, Anandamath.
(c) Then Rabindranath Tagore painted the famous image ofBharat
Mata.
(d) Devotion to this mother figure came to be seen as
evidence of one's nationalism.
(ii) Indian folklore:
(a) Ideas of nationalism also developed through a movement
to revive Indian folklore.
(b) Folk tales were sung by bards in the villages, to give
a true picture of the traditional culture, which was corrupted and damaged by
outside forces.
(c) In Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore himself began
collecting ballads, nursery rhymes and myths to revive the folk culture.
(d) In Madras, Natesa Sastri published a four-volume
collection of Tamil folk tales. The Folklore of Southern India.
(iii) Icons and symbols (Hag)
(a) During the Swadeshi Movement in moon, representing
Hindus and Muslims.
(c) By 1921, Mahatma Gandhi designed the swaraj flag.
(d) It was also again a tricolour (red, green, white)
flag and had a spinning wheel in the centre, representing the Gandhian ideal of
self-help.
(iv) Reinterpretation of history:
(a) The British saw Indians as backward, primitive and
incapable of governing themselves.
(b) In response, Indians began looking into the past to
discover India's great achievement.
(c) They wrote about glorious developments in ancient
India in arts and architecture, science and maths, religion and culture, law
and philosophy, etc.
(d) This glorious time was followed by a history of
decline, when India was colonised.
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