NATION - STATE

BY – GHANISHTHA MISHRA
UID – 19-46
WHAT IS NATION STATE?
NATION STATE IS GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH THE SAME CULTURE, LANGUAGE
ETC., WHO HAVE FORMED AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.

FEATURES OF NATION STATE

• GREAT MAJORITY ARE CONSCIOUS OF COMMON IDENTITY
• HAVE DEFINED POLITICAL BOUNDRIES
• IT’S A INDEPENDENT STATE WITH SOVERIGN GOVERNMENT
• ITS POLITICAL BOUNDRIES OVERLAP WITH CULTURAL( WHATEVER IS
COMMON)BOUNDRIES
• SENSE OF SHARED IDENTITY
ORIGIN OF NATION STATE
ORIGIN OF NATION STATE CAN BE TRACED BACK TO EUROPE
SIGNING OF WESTPHALIAN TREATY CAN BE CONSIDERED AS BIRTHDAY
OF NATION STATE
WESTPHALIAN TREATY GAVE RISE TO WESTPHALIAN SYSTEM ,WHICH
GIVES MAJOR EMPHASIS ON SOVERIGN GOVERNMENT AND LEAD TO
CREATION OF NATION STATE .
IS INDIA A NATION STATE?
INDIA BEING S NATION STATE OR NOT CAN BE LOOKED UPON THROUGH TWO
VERY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.
“The first and the most essential thing to learn about India”, he advised his
colonial masters, is that “there is not, and never was an India, or even any
country of India, possessing, according to European ideas, any sort of unity,
physical, political, social or religious…. That men of the Punjab, Bengal, the
North Western Provinces, and Madras, should ever feel they belong to one
great nation is impossible”.- JHON STRACHEY

IN LIGHT OF THIS STATEMENT LET US ANALYSE INDIA AS GIVEN BY

YOGENDRA YADAV.
YOGENDRA YADAV AGREES WITH THE STATMENT OF JHON STRACHEY.
ACCORDING TO HIM INDIA IS A STATE NATION BUT NOT NATION STATE.

GOING BACK TO IDOLOGY OF HINDUTVA AS GIVEN BY SAVARKAR. SAVARKAR

WAS OF THE OPINION THAT ONE SHOULD ADOPT INDIAN CULTURE AND
HISTORY, INHERIT INDIAN BLOOD AND COME TO LOOK UPON THE LAND OF
HIS LOVE BUT EVEN OF HIS WORSHIP.
MOREOVER, INDIANS SHARE A COMMON CULTURE AND COMMON HISTORY ,
FOR INDIA TO BE CALLED THE NATION STATE.