Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET November 2021 Political Science
Sri Aurobindo conceives nationalism as which of the following? Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- 1. Spiritual nationalism, different from the Western concept of nationalism
- 2. A nation as an organism
- 3. Nationalism as a religious aspiration and moral attitude
- 4. A nation as a geographical entity
A1, 2 & 3 ✓ Correct
B1, 2, 3 & 4
C2 & 3
D3 & 4
Correct answer: (A) 1, 2 & 3 — Aurobindo conceives nationalism as statements 1, 2 and 3, so the answer is 1, 2 and 3.
Explanation
★Aurobindo conceives nationalism as statements 1, 2 and 3, so the answer is 1, 2 and 3.
★He develops this view in his work The Ideal of Human Unity (1919).
★He sees nationalism as spiritual, a divine gift quite distinct from the materialist Western concept.
★He portrays the nation as a living organism, not a mere collection of individuals.
★He treats nationalism as a religious aspiration and a moral attitude, to be approached with the reverence of a religion.
★Statement 4 is false: his conception goes beyond the merely geographical or political to a spiritual idea of the nation.
★He thus contrasts the spiritual richness of Indian culture with the materialism he attributes to the West.
★Aurobindo set out his theory of spiritual evolution in The Life Divine (1939).
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