With the Industrial Revolution, the print industry also grew. The first products of the press were restricted to an audience of literate elites. It was only in the mid 19th century, with further development in technologies, transportation and literacy newspapers began to reach out to a mass audience. People living in different corners of the country found themselves reading or hearing the same news

The passage suggests that the growth in print media and industrialization provided a situation in which everyone reads the same news. This sharing of news and knowledge gave birth to one of the strongest ideologies in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. What is that Ideology?

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Modern nationalism

he well known scholar Benedict Anderson has thus argued that this helped the growth of nationalism, the feeling that people who did not even know of each other’s existence feel like members of a family. It gave people who would never meet each other a sense of togetherness. Anderson thus suggested that we could think of the nation as an ‘imagined community’.