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How was the sense of collective belonging developed during the freedom movement? Explain.

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Nationalism spread in India when people began to believe that they are all part of the same nation, when they discover some unity that binds them together. This sense of collective belonging came partly through the experience of united struggle. It was in the 20th century, with the growth of nationalism, that the identify of India came to be visually associated with the image of Bharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. In 1870 he wrote ?Vande Matram? as a hymn to the motherland.

Ideas of nationalism also developed through a movement to revive India folkore. Nationalist began recording folk tales sung by bards and they toured villages recording folk tales son and legends. As the national movement developed, nationalist leaders became more and more aware of such icons and symbols in unifying people and inspiring in them feeling of nationalism. In 1921, Gandhiji has designed the swaraj flag. It was a tricolor (Red, green and white) and had a spinning wheel in the centre. Carrying this flag, holding it aloft, during marches became a symbol of defiance.

Another means of creating them a feeling of nationalism history Indians began looking into the past to discover India?s began looking into the past to discover in ancient times when art and architecture, science Indians great achievements. They wrote about the glorious developments in ancient times when art and architecture science and mathematics, religion and culture, law and philosophy had flourished and decline in these areas began when India was colonized.