Travel guidebooks to lost lands are a challenge to nationalism
'The Grand Canal, Venice' by James Holland For nativist movements across the world, the past is a rich source of material waiting to be reshaped. Nationalists hark back to a “Golden Era” of lost power and pride, constructing histories that are often then used to fuel nostalgia and resentment amongst the population. In 2017, for example, India’s government secretly appointed a group of scholars to alter school textbooks, using historical material to promote their ideological view that India is a Hindu country. We have seen that such tactics can be effective; in the early 20th century, po...
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