• Dr. Seema Kashyap

At the times of national crisis authors and poets have successfully used the medium of literature to publicize or gain support for political upheavals or new ideologies. This paper seeks to examine the element of nationalism in the poems of Maithili Sharan Gupt and discuss the various perspectives of nationalism. Nationalism is an enigmatic notion and writers have grappled with the idea of ‘nation’ before independence in diverse ways. While it is important to understand the basic criteria that define nationalism it is equally vital to understand the fundamental difference between the ideas that define a sovereign geographical entity in the West as a nation as compared to the East.

Keywords:- nationalism, sovereign, nation, ideologies, independence.

"Nationalism in the Poems of Maithili Sharan Gupt", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no.202-207, February-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802329.pdf

"Nationalism in the Poems of Maithili Sharan Gupt", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 2, page no. pp202-207, February-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1802329.pdf