NCERT Class 10 History The Nation and its History

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The Nation and its History

The history written by colonial historians tended to depict Indians as weak, divided, and dependent on the British. These histories could not satisfy the tastes of the new Indian administrators and intellectuals. Nor did the traditional Puranic stories of the past – peopled by gods and demons, filled with the fantastic and the supernatural – seem convincing to those educated and working under the English system. Such minds wanted a new view of the past that would show that Indians could be independent minded and had been so in history. The novel provided a solution. In it, the nation could be imagined in a past that also featured historical characters, places, events and dates.

In Bengal, many historical novels were about Marathas and Rajputs. These novels produced a sense of a pan-Indian belonging. They imagined the nation to be full of adventure, heroism, romance and sacrifice – qualities that could not be found in the offices and streets of the nineteenth-century world. The novel allowed the colonised to give shape to their desires. Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay’s (1827-94) Anguriya Binimoy (1857) was the first historical novel written in Bengal. Its hero Shivaji engages in many battles against a clever and treacherous Aurangzeb. Man Singh persuades Shivaji to make peace with Aurangzeb. Realising that Aurangzeb intended to confine him as a house prisoner, Shivaji escapes and returns to battle. What gives him courage and tenacity is his belief that he is a nationalist fighting for the freedom of Hindus.

The imagined nation of the novel was so powerful that it could inspire actual political movements. Bankim’s Anandamath (1882) is a novel about a secret Hindu militia that fights Muslims to establish a Hindu kingdom. It was a novel that inspired many kinds of freedom fighters. Many of these novels also reveal the problems of thinking about the nation. Was India to be a nation of only a single religious community? Who had natural claims to belong to the nation?

5.1 The Novel and Nation Making

Imagining a heroic past was one way in which the novel helped in popularising the sense of belonging to a common nation. Another way was to include various classes in the novel so that they could be seen to belong to a shared world. Premchand’s novels, for instance, are filled with all kinds of powerful characters drawn from all levels of society. In his novels you meet aristocrats and landlords, middlelevel peasants and landless labourers, middle-class professionals and people from the margins of society. The women characters are strong individuals, especially those who come from the lower classes and are not modernised. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Premchand rejected the nostalgic obsession with ancient history. Instead, his novels look towards the future without forgetting the importance of the past.

Drawn from various strata of society, Premchand’s characters create a community based on democratic values. The central character of his novel Rangbhoomi (The Arena), Surdas, is a visually impaired beggar from a so-called ‘untouchable’ caste. The very act of choosing such a person as the ‘hero’ of a novel is significant. It makes the lives of the most oppressed section of society as worthy of literary reflection. We see Surdas struggling against the forcible takeover of his land for establishing a tobacco factory. As we read the story we wonder about industrialisation and its impact on society and people.

Who does it serve? Must other ways of living be sacrificed for it? The story of Surdas was inspired by Gandhi’s personality and ideas. Godan (The Gift of Cow), published in 1936, remains Premchand’s best-known work. It is an epic of the Indian peasantry. The novel tells the moving story of Hori and his wife Dhania, a peasant couple. Landlords, moneylenders, priests and colonial bureaucrats – all those who hold power in society – form a network of oppression, rob their land and make them into landless labourers. Yet Hori and Dhania retain their dignity to the end.

 

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Contemporary India II Chapter 01 Resources and Development
NCERT Class 10 Economics Contemporary India Resources and Development
Contemporary India II Chapter 02 Forest and Wildlife Resources
NCERT Class 10 Economics Contemporary India Forest and Wildlife Resources
Contemporary India II Chapter 03 Water Resources
NCERT Class 10 Economics Contemporary India Water Resources
Contemporary India II Chapter 04 Agriculture
NCERT Class 10 Economics Contemporary India Agriculture
Contemporary India II Chapter 05 Minerals and Energy Resources
NCERT Class 10 Economics Contemporary India Minerals and Energy Resources
Contemporary India II Chapter 06 Manufacturing Industries
NCERT Class 10 Economics Contemporary India Manufacturing Industries
Contemporary India II Chapter 07 Lifelines of National Economy
NCERT Class 10 Economics Contemporary India Lifelines of National Economy
Democratic Politics II Chapter 01 Power Sharing
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Power Sharing
Democratic Politics II Chapter 02 Federalism
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Federalism
Democratic Politics II Chapter 03 Democracy and Diversity
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Democracy and Diversity
Democratic Politics II Chapter 04 Gender Religion and Caste
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Gender Religion and Caste
Democratic Politics II Chapter 05 Popular Struggles and Movements
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Popular Struggles and Movements
Democratic Politics II Chapter 06 Political Parties
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Political Parties
Democratic Politics II Chapter 07 Outcomes of Democracy
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Outcomes of Democracy
Democratic Politics II Chapter 08 Challenges to Democracy
NCERT Class 10 Political Science Challenges to Democracy
India and Contemporary World II Chapter 01 The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
NCERT Class 10 History The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
India and Contemporary World II Chapter 02 Nationalism in India
NCERT Class 10 History Nationalism in India
India and Contemporary World II Chapter 03 The Making of a Global World
NCERT Class 10 History The Making of a Global World
India and Contemporary World II Chapter 04 The Age of Industrialisation
NCERT Class 10 History The Age of Industrialisation
Old Chapters
NCERT Class 10 History Before the Industrial Revolution
NCERT Class 10 History Characteristics of the City
NCERT Class 10 History Cities and the Challenge of the Environment
NCERT Class 10 History Differing Strands within the Movement
NCERT Class 10 History Emerging from the Shadow of China
NCERT Class 10 History Factories Come Up
NCERT Class 10 History Hand Labour and Steam Power
NCERT Class 10 History Hygiene Disease and Everyday Resistance
NCERT Class 10 History India and the World of Print
NCERT Class 10 History Industrialisation in the Colonies
NCERT Class 10 History Market for Goods
NCERT Class 10 History Nationalism and Imperialism
NCERT Class 10 History New Forms of Publication
NCERT Class 10 History Novels in the Colonial World
NCERT Class 10 History Politics in the City
NCERT Class 10 History Print and Censorship
NCERT Class 10 History Print Comes to Europe
NCERT Class 10 History Rebuilding a World Economy
NCERT Class 10 History Religion and Anti colonialism
NCERT Class 10 History Religious Reform and Public Debates
NCERT Class 10 History Social Change in the City
NCERT Class 10 History The Age of Revolutions 1830 1848
NCERT Class 10 History The City in Colonial India
NCERT Class 10 History The Communist Movement
NCERT Class 10 History The Dilemma of Colonial Education
NCERT Class 10 History The End of the War
NCERT Class 10 History The First Printed Books
NCERT Class 10 History The First World War
NCERT Class 10 History The Inter war Economy
NCERT Class 10 History The Making of Germany and Italy
NCERT Class 10 History The Making of Nationalism in Europe
NCERT Class 10 History The Nation and Its Heroes
NCERT Class 10 History The Nation and its History
NCERT Class 10 History The Nationalist Movement in Indo China
NCERT Class 10 History The Nineteenth Century
NCERT Class 10 History The Nineteenth Century1
NCERT Class 10 History The Novel Comes to India
NCERT Class 10 History The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth
NCERT Class 10 History The Print Revolution and Its Impact
NCERT Class 10 History The Reading Mania
NCERT Class 10 History The Rise of the Novel
NCERT Class 10 History The Sense of Collective Belonging
NCERT Class 10 History The Vision of Modernisation
NCERT Class 10 History Towards Civil Disobedience
NCERT Class 10 History Visualising the Nation
NCERT Class 10 History Women and the Novel
Understanding Economic Development Chapter 01 Development
NCERT Class 10 Economics Development
Understanding Economic Development Chapter 02 Sectors of the Indian Economy
NCERT Class 10 Economics Sectors Of The Indian Economy
Understanding Economic Development Chapter 03 Money and Credit
NCERT Class 10 Economics Money And Credit
Understanding Economic Development Chapter 04 Globalisation and the Indian Economy
NCERT Class 10 Economics Globalisation And The Indian Economy
Understanding Economic Development Chapter 05 Consumer Rights
NCERT Class 10 Economics Consumer Rights

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