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Subham Kumar

Asked: November 9, 2024In: Class 6 Social Science

Discuss in class the following quotation by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, when he travelled to many parts of India before Independence: “Everywhere I found a cultural background which had exerted a powerful influence on their lives. … The old epics of India, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and other books, in popular translations and paraphrases, were widely known among the masses, and every incident and story and moral in them was engraved on the popular mind and gave a richness and content to it. Illiterate villagers would know hundreds of verses by heart and their conversation would be full of references to them or to some story with a moral, enshrined in some old classic.”

Nehru’s quote emphasizes the cultural depth and moral influence of India’s epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata. These stories were deeply ingrained in people’s lives, shaping values even among illiterate villagers who recited them. class 6 Social Science Textbook Chapter 8 question ...