Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Challenges of Cultural Diversity

Question:

Who was against the evils of exclusive nationalism?

Options:

Rabindranath Tagore

Raja Ram Mohun Roy

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Jotiba Phule

Correct Answer:

Rabindranath Tagore

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore on the evils of exclusive nationalism: " …where the spirit of the Western nationalism prevails, the whole people is being taught from boyhood to foster hatred and ambitions by all kinds of means -- by the manufacture of half-truths and untruths in history, by persistent misrepresentation of other races and the culture of unfavourable sentiments towards them…Never think for a moment that the hurt you inflict upon other races will not infect you, or that the enemities you sow around your homes will be a wall of protection to you for all time to come? To imbue the minds of a whole people with an abnormal vanity of its own superiority, to teach it to take pride in its moral callousness and ill-begotten wealth, to perpetuate humiliation of defeated nations by exhibiting trophies won from war, and using these schools in order to breed in children’s minds contempt for others, is imitating the West where she has a festering sore…"