Kakuzo Okakura, a Japanese nationalist who visited Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta, wanted to unite India with other eastern nations through his ideas of what?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Pan-Asianism
Option (1) Pan-Asianism — Correct. Okakura came to India with his ideas about pan-Asianism, to unite India with other eastern nations.
Option (2) Imperialism — Incorrect. Okakura wanted to fight against western imperialism, not unite nations through it.
Option (3) Swadeshi — Incorrect. Ananda Coomaraswamy wrote about Swadeshi in art. Swadeshi was the nationalist movement in India, not Okakura’s idea.
Option (4) Orientalism — Incorrect. The orientalists were one side of the divide over art in India, against the anglicists. This was not Okakura’s idea.
NCERT (2026-27): “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …Ananda Coomaraswamy, an important art historian, wrote about Swadeshi in art and joined hands with a Japanese nationalist, Kakuzo Okakura, who was visiting Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta. He came to India with his ideas about pan-Asianism, by which he wanted to unite India with other eastern nations and fight against western imperialism.” |