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“The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.”

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Author:Lala Lajpat Rai

“Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.”

Mind Huge India Wave Symbols Temples Nationalism Flags Wet Secular Cement Dams

Author:Arundhati Roy

“My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.”

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Book:My Picture of Free India

Source: My Picture of Free India

“Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.”

Ifs Break India Core Nationalism Break Through

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.”

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Author:Nyla Ali Khan

“Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has ... roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people.”

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Author:Subhas Chandra Bose

“To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace with a land we took by force and have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness in one another. And none of us can be really free until all of us are.”