Question

How did the idea of nationalism develop through a movement to revive folklore?

Answer 1

Folklores are the legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales , customs ,the set of practices which are expressive and shared by people of the same region. This plays the role of a binding factor. The nationalists picked up the national folklores to use them as a binding factor among the people of India, and revive the culture of India which was subjugated by the Western culture.