The deliberations on nationalism are not new in India. However, the current debate[1] has sparked critical questions about phony nationalism[2], the meaning of belongingness, and the practice of "othering,[3]". This…
Whether based on real historical relationships or imposed by empires or modern states for their own convenience, national identities are often politicized. Many scholars, recognized within academic circles as culturalists/primordialists,…
by Chaitanya Pandey and Sandeep Pandey India today is witness to two contesting ideas of nationalism. There is an idea of nationalism which emerged from the freedom movement. This idea…
As Benedict Anderson has rightly pointed out in The Imagined Communalities, the concept of nationalism as a new identity criterion and as a hegemonic ideology “was born in an…
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