The Goddess And The Nation Mapping Mother India

In her book â€Å"The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India†, Sumathi Ramaswamy takes a glance into the time when Mother India / Bharat Mata emerged on the land of India, and talks about her significance, portrayal and mapping. The main purpose of this work by Sumathi Ramaswamy is to understand how Mother India / Bharat Mata came into being, what was her importance among the people, how she was related geographically to the map of India, her mapping throughout India and her depiction as a symbol of India. Rawaswamy delineates the origins and evolution of Indian patriotic artwork, which depicts Bharat Mata in different forms or representation. She shows how these artworks were used significantly by the patrons in the nationalist†¦show more content†¦Ramaswamy also pays close attention to study and understand the relation between the main defining parts of the image of Bharat Mata and the land of India that she represented. The main argument towards which she d raws attention, in this chapter, is the interested deployment of mapped configuration of India and the morphological form of Mother India, depicted in the printed pictures. Her dominant interest in this chapter and the rest of the chapters is to understand how and what these different forms of Mother India are doing with each other. Also, she analyses how the look of Mother India is formalized and risked, as â€Å"she is fashioned under the pressure of evolving visual patronization (14)†. Along with this analysis she also takes into consideration how and why the mapped form of India became an intimate part of her look. In the second chapter, she goes on to talk about the other Mothers/ women who were like Mother India and were popular in the world. She compares Mother India with all the other great women figures in the world, who like her have been imagined and have functioned as embodiments of modern world, for example the â€Å"Britannia† who found visibility in the resurgence of the â€Å"modern English-British National Imperialism† (Pg-73). She also explores the striking fact that Mother India is reminiscent of the