Answer:
(i)
Figures or images helped create an image with which people could identify the
nation.
(ii) It was in the 20th century, with the growth of nationalism, that the
identity of India came to be visually associated with the image of Bharat Mata.
(iii) The image was first created by Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay.
(iv) In 1870s, he wrote Vande Mataram as a hymn to the
motherland. Later it was included in his novel Anandamath and widely sung
during the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal.
(v) Moved by the Swadeshi Movement, Abanindranath Tagore,
painted his famous image of Bharat Mata.
(vi) In this painting Bharat Mata is portrayed as an
ascetic figure; she is calm, composed divine and spiritual.
(vi) In subsequent years, the image of Bharat Mata
acquired many different forms as it circulated in popular prints and was painted
by different artists.
Devotion to this mother figure came to be seen as evidence
of one's nationalism.
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