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?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
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’.