Evaluate the contribution of folklore, songs, popular prints etc. in shaping the nationalism during freedom struggle.
- HISTORY and fiction, folklore and songs, popular prints and symbols, all played an important part in the making of nationalism.
- The identity of the Nation is most often symbolised in a figure. This helps create an image with which people can identify the nations.
- The image of Bharat Mata was first created by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
- In the 1870s, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote ‘ Vande Mataram’ as a hymn to the motherland.
- Ideas of nationalism also developed through a movement to revive Indian folklore.
- Nationalists began recording folk tales sung by bards and they toured villages to gather folk songs and legends.