The word nation came to English from the old French word nacion, which in turn originates from the latin word natio literally meaning “that which has been born”.
(Harper, Douglas) A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, decent or history, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and govt. Where Nationalism is a belief system, creed or political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a nation. Nationalism had two components in literature and the arts.
(i) It helped writers seek a pre-colonial past that would help them define the nation.
(ii) It projected a destiny, a future shared by common to all people within the space of that nation. (Nayar.P.P. 176). …show more content…
After establishing the East India Company, the British came to India to trade, by the beginning of 19th Century, British felt the need for educating and civilizing the natives for various purposes. with an aim to promote only oriental education and to prepare human resource which could help them in administration, they established the private schools that imparted English education, which is succinctly articulated by the infamous ‘Minute on Indian Education’ (1935) by Thomas Macaulay.
The motif behind all these development was to dominate, control and spread the oriental authority in Asia.
Thus after reading, speaking and comprehending English, Indian soon started writing also. Simultaneously, Indian writing in English had to range from the most utilitarian prose to the most ambitious verse – epics. It emerged a new creative force of resistance. If resisted the injustice and cruelty of the
(Harper, Douglas) A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, decent or history, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and govt. Where Nationalism is a belief system, creed or political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a nation. Nationalism had two components in literature and the arts.
(i) It helped writers seek a pre-colonial past that would help them define the nation.
(ii) It projected a destiny, a future shared by common to all people within the space of that nation. (Nayar.P.P. 176). …show more content…
After establishing the East India Company, the British came to India to trade, by the beginning of 19th Century, British felt the need for educating and civilizing the natives for various purposes. with an aim to promote only oriental education and to prepare human resource which could help them in administration, they established the private schools that imparted English education, which is succinctly articulated by the infamous ‘Minute on Indian Education’ (1935) by Thomas Macaulay.
The motif behind all these development was to dominate, control and spread the oriental authority in Asia.
Thus after reading, speaking and comprehending English, Indian soon started writing also. Simultaneously, Indian writing in English had to range from the most utilitarian prose to the most ambitious verse – epics. It emerged a new creative force of resistance. If resisted the injustice and cruelty of the