Why G.B. Pant wanted to see people as loyal citizens?

Question

Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follow:

THERE CANNOT BE ANY DIVIDED LOYALITY

Gobind Ballabh pant argued that in order to become loyal citizens, people had to stop focusing only on the community and the self:

For the success of the democracy one must train him in the art of self- discipline. In democracies one should care less for him and more for others. There cannot be any divided loyalty. All loyalties must exclusively be centered on the state. If in a democracy, you create rival loyalties, or you create a system in which any individual or group, instead of suppressing his extravagance, cares not for larger or other interest, then democracy is doomed.

i. Why G.B. Pant wanted to see people as loyal citizens?

ii. What are criteria for the success of democracy?

iii. How does G.B. Pant define the attributes of a loyal citizen?

Answer 1

RITUALS AND THE REAL WORLD

(i) Basavanna was initially a jaina and minister of chalukya king. His followers were known as virashaivas or lingayats. They worshipped shiva as a linga

(ii) Basavanna’* attitude towards rituals-challenged the idea of caste and the pollution attributed to brahamanas. They questioned the theory of rebirth. They did not practice funerary rites, gave stress on post-puberty marriages.

(iii) his cult was lingayat & region he belonged to was Karnataka