Abstract—The history of the rise of nationalism in India
inspired by instances of European history is a post Revolt
phenomenon. In the background of it was the influence of
colonial rule and capitalist economy which developed
communitarian differences between Hindu and Muslims
constituents of Indian populations and Hindus endevour to
developed religion based aggressive nationalism while Muslims
were sided to a defensive position. The British capitalist
economy developed a class of Hindu bourgeois who wanted to
promote themselves to the position of national bourgeoise. The
colonial rulers changed their policy of ‘Divide and Rule’ and
began to favour Muslims instead of Hindus what they did
earlier. In this backdrop the Indian National Congress was
founded to integrate all regional emotions to a national ideology.
But it remain dominated by the Hindu and Hindu outlook. So
many vexed questions arose and remain unsolved even in the
21st century.
Index Terms—Bourgeois, capitalist economy, communitarian,
nationalism.
K. Ahmed is with the Frontier College, Karimganj, Assam, India (e-mail:
drkamal.history@gmail.com).
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Cite: Kamaluddin Ahmed, " Interpreting History of the Rise of Nationalism in India," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 382-386, 2014.