Sense of Collective Belongings

• Sense of collective belongings refers to Nationalism.

• Nationalism spreads when people begin to believe that they are all part of the same nation.

• It develops when people find some unity that binds them together.

• Sense of collective belonging in India can also be termed as Pan India belongings

Sense of Collective belonging developed in India through following ways:

1. Experience of United Struggles

2. Figure or Image

3. Hymn to the Motherland

4. Indian Folklore

5. A sense of pride in one's glorious past

6. Icons and Symbols

7. Reinterpretation of History