Benedict Anderson suggested that a nation based on "we-feeling" may be understood as:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Imagined Community
Option (4) Imagined Community — Correct. Newspapers made people in different corners of the country read the same news, so they felt connected and developed a sense of belonging, a ‘we feeling’. People who would never meet each other felt like members of one family; Benedict Anderson therefore suggested that we could think of the nation as an ‘imagined community’.
NCERT (2025-26): “7.1 The Beginnings of Modern Mass Media … The 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’.” |